It's a legitimate beef, actually. Guys like Bercuvitz are the ones who bear the consequences of NIMBY politics.
Environmentalism is all well and good unless and until it twists the knickers of the rich, white people who "control" the environmental movement.
Wind power, for example, is grand when it only affects poor folks in places where the environmentalists are unlikely to visit. But once you put up windmills in view of Ted Kennedy's house....
I think this guys complaint probably has much deeper roots (even if he hasn't given it much thought). Lots of things the left does, end up flowing down to the poorer segments of society. This one (about which his complaints are legitimate) would have been the last straw.
You are right, and he is right. I guarantee they wouldn’t offend the CEO because he does have power, clout. But, did they consult the guy whose front porch was going to face these AC units?
It is sad that those that bear the brunt of all of the environmental requirements are the ones supposed to be helped by it, :-(.