If they would build houses right; we wouldn’t need a/c. My husband’s mothers house was practically in desert; but it was built right and didn’t ned a/c. Same way with my grandfather’s house.
What about Houston?
Also, not all humans, or even Americans can afford to have a house 'built right' existing housing and trailers, and 80 year old houses are still all that most can afford, and those that can't afford that live in apartment buildings over, under, and abutted on two or three sides by each other, what do they do? And what about cities like Houston where humidity is a monster and trying to sleep in 95 degrees with 90% humidity is impossible, and that was true before A/C?
If they would build houses right; we wouldn’t need a/c. My husband’s mothers house was practically in desert; but it was built right and didn’t need a/c. Same way with my grandfather’s house.
You are correct, the problem with that of course is modern zoning boards make building houses and other buildings designed for the local conditions very difficult. Their rules are pretty much cookie cutter from North to south and east to west.
For instance my great grandmothers home in Ada Ohio was a semi-traditional Summer Winter house design. In the summer they lived in the northern half so that they didn’t have the sun heating up the bedrooms and other living spaces, the Master Bedroom had a larger balcony and doors that would be opened at night to allow the cooler night air in.
During the Winter they lived in the south half of the house so that the sun would help warm up the rooms. Those rooms had lower ceilings than the northern half so that the heat would be more concentrated.
There were a lot more things that were designed into that house that made it very comfortable to be in all year round with little or no electricity needed. But try to build it today and the costs would very extreme and just getting the plans approved would be a long term process by the code authority.
So in a way you can also blame the increased use of A/C on the Bureaucrats as they make it very difficult to build and live in alternatively designed structures.