Posted on 07/27/2021 9:08:12 AM PDT by Heartlander
In the Brave New World of “Woke” Perfection, you won’t be allowed to keep your air conditioning. Personal air conditioning represents racism and “white supremacy.” It opposes social, economic, and environmental justice. Even as summer’s hottest months approach.
So implies Eric Dean Wilson, an instructor and graduate student at the City University of New York. In a recent article for Time magazine, Wilson wrote about how air conditioning will destroy the planet. His essay shows how such “woke” dogmas as critical race theory, equity, and the condemnation of both capitalism and “white supremacy” meet in another “woke” doctrine: environmental extremism.
Wilson has no training in climate science or mechanical engineering. Nevertheless, he teaches “climate-themed writing and environmental justice” at CUNY’s Queens College. Wilson describes his recent book, After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort, as “a look at air conditioning’s contribution to climate violence, and a critique of the American addiction to personal comfort.”
According to that critique, inventors developed what Wilson calls “mechanical cooling” to help business. As air conditioning became more widespread and available for homes, it “conveyed class status” that “often fell starkly along the color line, too, especially in the South” while “cleaving the world into civilized cooling and barbaric heat,” he wrote.
Wilson’s demand for others to become comfortable with discomfort not only ignores the spirit that led to human progress. It rejects that spirit.
Wilson offers some technological alternatives. But he believes the ultimate solution lies beyond science.
“Renewable energy infrastructure can take us only so far,” he wrote. “The rest of the work is cultural.”
Wilson’s solution combines the cultural and technological. He believes in enacting policies that emphasize public comfort over personal comfort...
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Us southerners will get rid of air conditioners when northerners like that New Yorker gets rid of his furnace.
These people are Nuts.
Okay...
How is A/C racist?
I’m a yankee from Pennsylvania, and I feel the same as you do.
Yup, and I’ll bet the vast majority of people claiming that it is racist have actually themselves.
I’ve always held myself back from saying to the younger people: If you sincerely believe in man-caused climate change, then stop using air conditioning at work, your home and in cars. Okay?”
But like another person on this site I am now too old to win a fistfight and....well, see his tagline sometime.
Guarantee you this daisy will wilt in Central Texas’ August heat. Bet he/she/it would be singing a different tune then.
From my exposure to it, I believe CUNY has been full-on Marxist for at least the last 20 years.
Because only WHITE people have AC systems that’s why.
(sarcasm of course)
I’m just pointing out that the wokesters always want us to get rid of what they think the rest of us need but they don’t. Not too many Dims here in Alabama are calling for ending A/C. -
Let’s see him survive a Southern summer. One hundred days of 100+ degrees. Double dog dare him.
I propose Eric teach a 2 week course at Ole Miss on his research and solutions. His stay will, of course, be free any evil air conditioning.
Just another case of pure classic liberal insanity on full public display.
The moronic jackass belongs in a nut house, not a university...oh, wait!
What about non-white people who enjoy air conditioning? Will they be allowed to keep it?
I’m betting that guy has tremendous B.O.
OK, let the government lead they way and ban AC from all government agencies and offices to show us they aren’t racists.
Add some steamy humidity to the mix.
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