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In Europe still today AC usage is at less than 5% of all households. Sure the US likely has more cities in really hot places, but ACs are still generally an Ame
by culi 5y ago
In Europe still today AC usage is at less than 5% of all households. Sure the US likely has more cities in really hot places, but ACs are still generally an American thing
- hedora 5y agoThey say air conditioning settled the west. Desertification in that area is starting to roll that back though. Never-irrigated ranches are drying up. Without argiculture, the towns die. The ecosystems don't recover, even in places where the people are gone and the buildings have rotted to dust and blown away (too hot / no rain). This must have been how people felt when the Sahara turned into a desert. I can't believe it's happening so fast. (Towns that were populated 20 years ago are completely invisible now.)
- culi 5y agoNot to mention the onset of a new Dust Bowl[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THSm-I790H0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THSm-I790H0 (PBS Eons vid about it)