Posted on 08/14/2015 10:00:59 AM PDT by rey
It started with the pope. In his recent encyclical, Laudato Si’, he singled out air conditioning as a particularly good example of wasteful habits and excessive consumption that overcome our better natures:
People may well have a growing ecological sensitivity but it has not succeeded in changing their harmful habits of consumption which, rather than decreasing, appear to be growing all the more. A simple example is the increasing use and power of air-conditioning.
Now, it seems to be open season on air conditioning. From a raging Facebook debate over an article that claims that air conditioning is an oppressive tool of the patriarchy to an article in the Washington Post that calls the American use of air conditioning an “addiction” and compares it unfavorably to the European willingness to sweat through the heat of summer, air conditioning is under attack. So I want to defend it.
Understand that when I defend air conditioning, I do so as something of a reluctant proponent. I grew up in the Midwest, and I have always loved sitting on the screened-in porch, rocking on the porch swing, drinking a glass of something cold. I worked in Key West during the summer after my sophomore year of college, lived in an apartment with no air conditioning, and discovered the enormous value of ceiling fans. A lazy, hot summer day can be a real pleasure.
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Anything about paying $1000 for a dress, handbag or footwear? No? Okay
If they want to piss off menopausal women everywhere, push this crap.
I like my air conditioning the way I like my guns. Take away either, get the same reaction.
Next let’s talk about the pleasures of outhouses. How much water is used for bathroom functions??? Is it immoral to have running water???
Bought my first house in 1966. Now in my third. Never had air conditioning in any home I have owned.
Have ceiling fans everywhere. Temps for past 2 days over 100 outside & is predicted for next 5 days. I deal with it. My neighbors who have AC are paying about 4 ++ times my electric bill.
All these a-holes who want to take air conditioning away need to be shipped to any hot and humid climate and forced to work outside all day, every day, for the rest of their lives.
BTTT.
Only your god-like elites, Clintons, Popes, Obamas, et al, are allowed such luxuries. Not the serfs.
Is this normal for your area? Or an outlier?
When I run my AC, I open all the windows to help cool off the climate outdoors.
I believe; and I am doing my part.
/s, folks. That’s all that’s left anymore.
Send Laudato’s @$$ here to Phoenix. I can show him why air conditioning isn’t a harmful habit. Da boy needs to lay off da drugs for a while.
Is there A/C in the private residence of the Pope?
I hate to tell you this, but I had a college professor give that exact lecture. He waxed poetic about the Chinese use of “night soil.” When one student spoke up questioning sanitation and spread of disease with such a method, he almost burst a blood vessel.
I’m 82 and have had Central AC for the last 15 years.
No way would I give it up,I spent 67 years without it.
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I’ve read that our fedgov was much smaller and less intrusive before air conditioning came to Wash DC.
So it may not be all bad, of course this makes the false inference that the elites would be part of this.
My A.C. is going full blast as I type. My whole working career I saved so I could live comfortably in my retirement, that’s what I’m doing. The pope can live as he pleases too.
Only liberals want to tell other people how to live.
“Never had air conditioning”
Wow! You must be on the Pope’s Christmas card list, if that isn’t too much of an indulgence.
Actually, I haven’t had ac in 30 years, though sometimes I wish I had it.
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