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Ask HN: Sustainability and open air heated swimming pools
I'm traveling through a state well-known world-wide for its virtue-signaling on sustainability (climate/environmental).
My motel has an open air heated swimming pool and hot tub. And it's cold outside.
All of yesterday, I was the only person who used either.
Two vats containing thousands of gallons of water. One heated to a very high temperature, the other to a slightly lower temperature. All year long, 24/7. Steam constantly rising from both.
How do they (the state's government/activists/citizens) justify this? Is this energy coming from a green source and cannot be used elsewhere?
- seattle_spring 3y agoI don't think I see the connection between a state's population on average being climate conscious, and a single business entity doing something wasteful. Are you saying this is some kind of "gotcha" against the activists because they're not picketing the hotel?
- profsummergig 3y agoI'm wondering what's the point of all that virtue signaling if there's so much obvious waste in a public facing activity.
- seattle_spring 3y agoAh, so... https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/concern-troll/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/concern-troll/
- profsummergig 3y agoJust pointing out: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypocrisy https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypocrisy Thanks for the: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ad-hominem https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ad-hominem