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A Luxury the World Can’t Afford (Air Conditionining!)
The New York Times ^ | June 21, 2012 | Stan Cox

Posted on 06/22/2012 4:14:16 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

The economist Thorstein Veblen once quipped that "invention is the mother of necessity." That was before the age of air-conditioning, but no technology better illustrates Veblen's point. Having developed efficient cooling, we've designed homes, businesses and transportation systems that are completely dependent on it, while the resulting greenhouse emissions create the need for even more air-conditioning.

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We must break this feedback loop, but what does one say to someone living in one of the tropical nations where much of the increase in cooling demand is expected? Surely not that Americans are addicted to air-conditioning and can’t give it up, but we expect Southeast Asians to get by without air-conditioners because they're used to the heat.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ac; agenda21; airconditioning; carbon; climatechangehoax; cultureofdeath; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hotaircult; neoluddism
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To: ansel12

I also remember the very first tvs to the public. They were like a piece of furniture with a very small screen.


181 posted on 06/23/2012 3:50:01 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

My neighborhood and especially my house was late to TV, but I do remember Kitirik on TV, and chasing the DDT fogging trucks while running full speed, lungs gasping for air.

The DDT fogging trucks looked like they were laying down military level smoke fields over our streets and homes, we loved them as kids, both for the “smoke”, and the fact that they were killing the hated masses of mosquitoes.


182 posted on 06/23/2012 4:10:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: I still care

Which is the correct way?????


183 posted on 06/23/2012 4:24:39 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("The plans I have for you are plans to prosper you.,not to harm you, Plans to give you hope)
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To: I still care

Which is the correct way?????


184 posted on 06/23/2012 4:25:01 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("The plans I have for you are plans to prosper you.,not to harm you, Plans to give you hope)
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To: wardaddy
there are few places in the world less comfortable than the Deep South in August...the combination of humidity and heat is rough

You really have to add in the swarms of mosquitos and the chiggers to get the whole picture.

185 posted on 06/23/2012 5:33:32 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$ or PETA.)
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To: ansel12

Most of tv was a screen with those odd marks due to no one having anything on them. When they got better my great grandmother loved wrestling even if it was fake. My great uncle ran the Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock for years. He told us they were fake.

We were not allowed outside when the fog trucks came in.


186 posted on 06/23/2012 5:46:22 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: BooBoo1000

The Chicago Way, of course. /sarc


187 posted on 06/23/2012 7:59:20 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Cvengr; Still Thinking

At my first job in the mid 80’s we had a server room that needed extra cooling so they inserted a window unit in the wall and exited the hot sticky air into the room with the consoles where we worked. Then they bumped up our flow from the building air so we would be alternately hot and sticky or freezing, but it was always noisy so they bought us hearing protectors. I still have that pair.


188 posted on 06/24/2012 4:38:16 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: Timber Rattler
..from my cold, dead hands...
189 posted on 06/25/2012 4:04:33 AM PDT by wolfcreek (A closed eye mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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To: Timber Rattler

Another attack on the South!


190 posted on 06/25/2012 4:13:29 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: dalereed

I’m pissed off!!


191 posted on 06/25/2012 8:12:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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