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So your 'easy step' is to live in a place where this is possible? Is the entire world welcome to live next to you?

• nnf 3y ago
  I’m not the GP, I was just pitching in to answer the question about how electric bills can be that low.
• friend_and_foe 3y ago
  Not who youre responding to (but probably who you thought you were responding to) but where I live is not Hawaii or the pacific northwest, it's not all roses. It gets hot and it gets cold, not Montana cold and not Arizona hot but still a bit extreme. And very, very humid. There's always a reason to say you can't do it, but I do what I can and if it's important to you you can too. It's a change in habit and lifestyle, that's all. Live lighter and don't rely on comfort like you'll die without it.
  • bzzzt 3y ago
    > Live lighter and don't rely on comfort like you'll die without it. While for some people it's a comfort issue there are lots of people that will literally die without cooling during heatwaves. Besides that, you can't expect people to be productive (especially in jobs where you're supposed to make use of your brain) when they are slowly cooked in a hot office.
    • spicymapotofu 3y ago
      Brain work is the most privileged about working conditions, imagine how many kitchen workers would drop dead from hwat exhaustion if their managers weren't freezing them towels every summer.
    • friend_and_foe 3y ago
      Sure, I don't expect everyone to be like me. I know not everyone can. But everyone lived without air conditioning for all of human history until about a hundred years ago. The number of people who will die without it is much less than you'd think, and there are ways to keep cool without it that people used when they build houses, public buildings etc before air conditioning.