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We'd solve the climate crisis in seconds if AC units were outlawed.
by barrenko 4y ago
We'd solve the climate crisis in seconds if AC units were outlawed.
- rhizome31 4y agoWhile necessary, I doubt this will be sufficient.
- Aachen 4y agoI don't have an AC but a home that stays naturally cool even at 40° outside. It's the first proper place after student rooms so it's not like I was clever enough to plan this ahead, I just got lucky. It seems that ground floor or below is perfectly doable without AC, especially when shaded by neighbouring houses (or you could just construct building-sized sunglasses). That would be the simple solution when ACs were outlawed. That won't stop drought and forest fires, or extreme weather events like flooding. Not to mention that I'm curious what the ecosystem does if we just let the climate change by this much. We still need food somehow, I'm not sure how much our current supply can be artificially recreated (we can't just put wheat and a cow on a space ship and call it a day, the soil will be exhausted in no time, do we know how nature has been replenishing that? Which bacteria to bring, or in this case, to preserve on space ship earth?). It's unfortunately about more than just comfort and convenience. We won't all die I'm sure, we're clever and resilient, but with millions displaced it won't be fun either. I understand your comment was mostly a joke, but I don't know to what extent you might also have been serious.