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> Countless human lives can be saved if we're willing to work together. The major problem is equatorial heat. After a certain point of wet bulb temperature, yo

> Countless human lives can be saved if we're willing to work together. The major problem is equatorial heat. After a certain point of wet bulb temperature, you either die or migrate a billion people away from the equator into Europe. Billions can't afford air conditioning. An air conditioning unit is equal to their entire annual income. You don't even have an airtight room within which you can install the AC unit. Let alone a stable electrical grid during heatwaves. Their state capacity and wealth just isn't there to plan for the worst, either. Their civic society would sooner collapse than mobilise to solve this problem. My intention isn't to sound chauvinist, this is just a reality of the political fragility of poorer countries, combined with the extreme difficulty of mobilising large amounts of resources to solve long-term challenges.

anonym29 2y ago
>Billions can't afford air conditioning. An air conditioning unit is equal to their entire annual income. Air conditioning can get radically cheaper to meet market demand, and they can start making radically more money. Other products have gone from expensive to cheap (think TVs over the last 40 years), other people have gone from poor to prosperous (think China). Do you have a good reason why these outcomes are possible TVs and for Chinese people, but not for ACs and equatorial people?
- energy123 2y ago
  What about countries with political strife like Myanmar? We can't hope that 100% of countries all experience significant growth, fast enough to outstrip the impact of rising temperatures. There will be laggards stuck on low GDP. Also, a lot of these economies rely on outdoor work, widespread AC can't help with that. If we get to the 3-4C warming scenarios, these countries will be terrible to live in, regardless of AC, and I won't blame them when they all try to escape to colder Europe.

anonym29 2y ago

>Billions can't afford air conditioning. An air conditioning unit is equal to their entire annual income. Air conditioning can get radically cheaper to meet market demand, and they can start making radically more money. Other products have gone from expensive to cheap (think TVs over the last 40 years), other people have gone from poor to prosperous (think China). Do you have a good reason why these outcomes are possible TVs and for Chinese people, but not for ACs and equatorial people?

energy123 2y ago
What about countries with political strife like Myanmar? We can't hope that 100% of countries all experience significant growth, fast enough to outstrip the impact of rising temperatures. There will be laggards stuck on low GDP. Also, a lot of these economies rely on outdoor work, widespread AC can't help with that. If we get to the 3-4C warming scenarios, these countries will be terrible to live in, regardless of AC, and I won't blame them when they all try to escape to colder Europe.