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> now just feed global warming with unnecessary air conditioning? Modern society would not exist without air conditioning, it is completely necessary to sustai
by buttcoinslol 7y ago
> now just feed global warming with unnecessary air conditioning?
Modern society would not exist without air conditioning, it is completely necessary to sustain our current civilization.
I'll concede that adding air conditioning capacity will increase global warming, but the above point still stands. Without A/C, our civilization is not sustainable.
- ndjskska 7y agoHave some decent insulation and sun blinds. Keep windows shut during the day and open at night. Works in many hot places around the world. AC can be complementary, but you dramatize.
- dlhavema 7y agoSorta anecdotal but I live in Phoenix, AZ and in the summer time it is regular 110f+ during the day and close to, if not still above 100f at night. Opening windows doesn't help. Most of our electric bill in the summer goes to the AC unit(s). Some people have evap/swap coolers but those only go so far, and stop working during monsoons cause it's already too humid. Edit: its 8:45am and 97f outside.
- carlob 7y agoIf by "modern society" you mean colonizing the American South-West and California, you are probably right. Those places are deserts and semi-deserts and should have been left sparsely populated, but a combination of corruption, American exceptionalism gave us this. Thus said, there are plenty of places around the Mediterranean which have always been pretty warm in the summer, and where there is a convention of closing down between noon and 4 PM, but spreading the work-day longer during the evening and the early morning (think 8-12 4-8 instead of 9-5). So I strongly suspect that there is much about this that is a matter of culture and habit. (Not to mention that your use of modern is pretty wrong historically, since AC is a contemporary invention, definitely not modern, but I'm digressing...)