The article laments how we use electricity to cool things, and talks glowingly about how people used to cool off. I didn't see a single thing in there that an

The article laments how we use electricity to cool things, and talks glowingly about how people used to cool off. I didn't see a single thing in there that an average person could afford. Can you build a double-walled palace and import ice? How about hiring a bunch of punka-wallahs? How does the punka-wallah stay cool while he's expending a bunch of energy keeping others cool? To me it reads kind of like the thing all kinds of underprivileged groups lament "fuck you, I got mine"