> No one seems to complain about the environmental impact of home heating in cold climates. Humans chose to migrate to those climates tens of thousands of year

> No one seems to complain about the environmental impact of home heating in cold climates. Humans chose to migrate to those climates tens of thousands of years ago when they had no other choice. They arrived to escape conflict, tension, or in search of more resources. Then they survived in those climates with literal stone age technology, and struggled, but persevered for thousands of years. Finally, in the last 100 years they managed to get comfortable with modern technology. Asking them to move is asking them to give up hundreds of generations of genetic adaptation, and cultural integration with their location. On the other hand, the places that people are critical of are those that have expanded dramatically in population only in the last 50 years - places that have never supported significant human populations, but suddenly were able to due to: * Air conditioning technology * A sudden, but now expiring, era of cheap fossil fuels. We're talking about places like Saudi Arabia, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and so on. These places never supported significant human populations the way that "Northern Europe" has, and is only now able to BECAUSE of AC technology.