Posted on 08/28/2024 10:51:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We’ve noticed over the last couple of decades a repeating cycle in which finger-wagging scolds tell us that we need to drop some of the conveniences of modernity as sacrifices to Gaia, our Mother Earth. Two examples that have come around more frequently than Halley’s Comet have been the loony broadsides launched against air conditioning and showers.
Now add to that a campaign aimed at refrigeration, because it causes “wide-ranging climate implications.”
Nicola Twilley, author of “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,” seems to be on a crusade to reverse the benefits of refrigeration. In an interview last month with ABC News, she discussed the “bigger downside” of refrigeration in regard to “our environment.”
“All the power that is used for cooling. It’s a huge vast contribution to climate change. And that’s before we even get to the chemicals that we use to refrigerate. They’re called refrigerants, and they are the number one thing we could tackle to mitigate climate change, according to Project Drawdown. So it’s it’s got a lot of downsides. They’re just not usually talked about.”
Refrigeration has a lot of upside, too.
“A refrigerator is one of the most important pieces of equipment in the kitchen for keeping foods safe,” says the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Human Progress, a project that highlights the “dramatic improvements in human well-being throughout much of the world,” reminds us that “Refrigeration has revolutionized public health and improved the quality of life worldwide,” and has blessed us with “remarkable benefits,” such as “reducing foodborne illnesses and improving the quality of food.”
Twilley even admits that refrigeration’s ability to keep food from spoiling is responsible for height increases among “19th-century army recruits.”
As far as we know, Twilley hasn’t called on policymakers to ban refrigeration. Nor is she the first to try to connect refrigeration with a climate disaster. Four years ago, the BBC swore that “your fridge is heating up the planet,” while in 2022, The New Yorker declared that the refrigerator had become “an agent of climate catastrophe.”
But Twilley is clearly wagging a finger, just as those who tell us daily showers are unnecessary due to water use and the carbon dioxide emitted when heating the water, and air conditioning “is a big contributor to global warming.”
The climate nags have already had plenty of policy success, particularly in virtue-signaling California, where internal-combustion engine automobiles have been outlawed, natural-gas appliances have been banned, and there will be no new gas stations built in a few cities.
But even with those Ws, the eco-tyrants, whose goal is total elimination of all opposition to their deindustrialization agenda, are never satisfied. They want to remake Western economies, keep the Third World mired in the poverty and place their controls over society. The mantle of green is nothing more than a coverup for a scheme so dark that its tenets cannot be said out loud.
Punishment of western civilization seems to be the goal. Something the leftists have in common with the jihadists.
Yup — they just hate civilization. It’s as simple as that.
Neo-Luddites...............
All we have to do is to FORCE the DC slime molds that make these laws be the first to comply with them. Having lived in northern VA during the summer, these little wimpy turds will be the first to give up.
And by force them, we must mean it. Make them suffer, cry, and may we hear the lamentations of their pink-haired women (both men-women and female women.
Das ist?
Adam Smith never imagined that one day anything could be made anywhere and manufacturing would gravitate to the swampiest parts of the World.
They do not hate civilization—they just want to control it and all their subjects. Its about putting in place the ancient form of rule—a system that dates back to the pyramids. A few people with all the money and power, and the rest struggling to stay alive and enjoy a few good times in their short hard lives. The powerful will toss a few goodies to the masses to keep them happy—festivals, free food and drink, Colorful religious events in equally colorful temples, be it in Thebes, Egypt, Rome or Paris.
according to a former neighbor that was a legal immigrant from barbados, the white man is to be punished for the atrocities and oppression that was committed against the native american indians and the black man during the founding of the united states of america... she was an obama supporter...
They are misanthropes. That’s their motivation. GCC is just a vehicle for these psychos to justify their murderous policies.
Collective punishment can be a two way street. You should have asked your former neighbor what the worst thing anyone from Barbados has committed. And why should she be spared from the consequences. New “groups” can always be formed and new collective punishment imposed, at a whim, under this kind of a system.
Any day now, the eco-terrorists/Big Gov/Deep State are going to declare that those amazing automobile backup cameras that make parallel parking so much easier and safer are causing Climate Crisis, and are simply not equitable. Not everyone has one, especially those using public transportation that they insist we use. Only when everyone is equally destitute will Nirvana be accomplished.
They are not at war with modern conveniences.
They are at war with humanity and seek to make life as unpleasant for humans as possible.
Leftists loathe humanity. It’s why they love abortion, love war, love silly environmental laws, love Islam, love gays, love euthanasia, and loathe success. Their goal is to end that which they hate the most, which is themselves and the rest of humanity.
It’s a war on civilization.
Eco-freaks, muslims, and commies all have the same bleak vision of Utopia.
we went rounds verbally... especially when she claimed to be a christian...
Electric water heaters are outrageous now. Because now they are heat pump water heaters making them more costly and more prone to breakdown and failure.
Luddites.
Smelly hippies.
But I bet they’ll never allow You to see the houses they live in or the appliances that they have!
Because they all think they are Elite Communists when they are actually Street Scum Communists. They will learn their place way too late, after they loose everything, too.
1) The air intake of my water heater has a duct I installed to draw air in from the attic above it into the water heater's air intake vent. By taking in warm air from the attic, the water heater doesn't have to run as long to find enough heat to warm the water tank. Might as well utilize the free heat in the attic to get some use out of it.
2) I added another duct to the water heater: on the air output vent. I flip a wye lever twice per year: during the warm 7 or 8 months of the year I use that free cold air from the water heater to help cool the house by making it go into an air receiver for my HVAC. Might as well use the free cold air from the water heater. This makes the water heater work in concert with my HVAC (a variable-speed heat pump) so that the two appliances are not only efficient as stand alone appliances, but together they work better than the sum of their parts. When the cool months begin I flip the wye lever to duct the cold air from the water heater away from my living quarters into the attic.
The way I see it, the less energy I need to have the same creature comforts, then the less the Dims' warmageddon cult energy policies drain my wallet with their sky high energy prices.
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