Did you understand anything I wrote? I grew up walking behind a plow in South Carolina, I served aboard the USS Saratoga home ported in Mayport Florida, I have been on a bus in dress blue (wool) in El Centro Ca. when the air conditioning broke down and I along with the other passengers stood under a shed while it was fixed. The thermometer hanging under that shed was reading 120. Why was I wearing wool? Not because I am crazy, even though I am but because the good old United States Navy said that you would travel when on leave in dress blue regardless of the season unless you had civilian clothes which I did not have available. I doubt you can educate me much about hot weather but my point was that there are ways to build buildings that people can survive in in hot weather rather than the type we build now that are NOT survivable in really hot weather. Most of your rant has nothing to do with what I said.
By the way when you say that fans only move the hot humid air around, I can agree with that when the temperature is higher than normal body temperature but when it is 95 degrees or less a fan is a definite help, it keeps that envelope of heat from sticking right around your body. Have you ever been in a limestone cavern where there is ZERO air movement? I have stood around in a cave where the air temp is 53 degrees F in a short sleeve shirt and never felt chilly. Even the slightest breeze outside on a 53 degree day has me calling for a jacket unless I am doing some kind of hard physical work.
On the farm where I grew up there was an old tobacco curing barn built by my ancestors that was never used except for a place to play when I was a kid. It was made of logs with a steep pitched, wood shingled roof and the bottom three feet or so under the logs was made of flat sandstone rock laid up with red clay mud used as mortar. You could go inside it on a ninety five degree day and feel comfortable, I used to wish I could sleep in it under a mosquito net in the summer. I have been inside a wattle and daub building which was a reconstruction of what the Indians used to build at Town Creek in North Carolina and found it quite comfortable on a really hot day. I don’t want to go back to building with sticks and mud but my point is that buildings can be constructed so that on a hot day they remain near the average temperature of the 24 hours rather than being even hotter than the hottest daytime temperature as many modern buildings are if not air conditioned. If my air conditioner broke down or the power failed during one of our super hot spells now I would have to go somewhere else, you simply could not live in this house without air conditioning in really hot weather and I mean you literally could not survive.
If you really did stop and throw up when driving without a/c you may be super sensitive to heat, I have worked through heat spells with temps as high as 106 in a vehicle without a/c and never threw up, I grant you it wasn’t fun but I did not have to stop and throw up.
If you grew up walking behind a plow in SC and you don’t think its so bad without AC you obviously had brain damage from too much sun and heat. Heat stroke will do that to you. :-)