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Posted on 08/29/2021 11:16:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When did indoor air become cold and clean?
Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous, that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of them were one and the same, with occupants powerless against their environment.
Eric Dean Wilson, in his just published book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” dives deep into the history of this field. It took more than just inventing the air conditioner to make people want to buy it. In fact, whole social classes outright rejected the technology for years. It took hustle, marketing skill, and mass societal change to place air conditioning at the center of our built environment.
Wilson covers that history, but he has a more ambitious agenda: to get us to see how our everyday comforts affect other people. Our choice of frigid cooling emits flagrant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, placing untold stress on our planet and civilization. Our pursuit of comfort ironically begets us more insecurity and ultimately, less comfort.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Notice no one on Yahoo can reply to this hypocrite. When they remove the replies to an article. This tells us pretty much everyone strongly disagrees with this clown.
They can’t handle the heat. Pun intended...
leftists think minorities are a lower class.
electric companies have been pushing load control devices on A/C units for decades. They have been able to control power you your a/c units through those things for years.
I’m sure his book was written in the comfort of his air conditioned home.
Makes sense.
While they leave their menial staffs behind to swelter.
For the good of the planet, of course.
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If you put a mustach on Greta you couldn’t tell the apart.
The picture looks a little like a cross between Hitler and Zuckerberg.
They won’t be satisfied until we are all living in mud huts, walking barefoot down dirt roads and carrying large water vessels on our heads. Eating pinebark and flies.
They don’t have to. My meter is CONnected wireless to NVEnergy. Buck the system, power off.
Y’know...
... there really IS BS that’s just TOO deep to glorify with a click.
These idiots don’t deserve anyone consume a single syllable of their drivel. They deserve wholesale scorn and mockery.
This mindset on display with the anti A/C crowd reminds me of wise words that should echo throughout all their lives; “Stupid should hurt”
>>Like my guns, they’re never ever going to get me to give up my A/C.
Come and take it!<<
From my 69 degree in summer/71 degree in winter dead hands!
>>Without AC, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada would still be mostly uninhabited stinking desert.<<
More importantly, without AC Washington DC would be EMPTY between May and October of every year! Senators and Representatives would have to *horrors* visit their home states!
The inventor of AC should be made a saint.
I would be interested to see what the total home climate control energy usage is north vs south. Generally, cooling is only 10-15 degrees difference, but heating might be 30-40 degrees.
unplug the CEO
Articles such as this are printed for a reason. To prepare minds for what the left is planning to do. In this case, put severe controls on AC. After that, taxes. After that, ban it. (Except for the ruling elite like gore, bamm, gates, soros, pelosi).
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