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Coming to a United States of America near you, courtesy of the ObamaBot Flat Earth Society

Resistance is not futile. But you have to actually resist.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Unfortunately, it’s already here. In the Chicago area, we have the first certified passive house. It’s a building that’s 10 times more airtight than code. It uses a ductless heat pump system and an energy recovery ventilation unit that brings in outside air turning over the volume of the house every three hours. In addition, it has a solar water heater and a five kilowatt-per-hour photovoltaic array.

The problem with the description above is that it doesn’t mention the exact indoor temperature especially on a warm July day. Also, a heat pump in the Chicago area seems insufficient for those really cold Chicago winter days. The architect, Brandon Weiss, who worked in Germany, has really sold a lot of folks on this nonsense. But what do I know? I’m just a local architect and contractor.

Local governments have really jumped on the bandwagon. Cook County now requires the recycling of at least 70% construction waste.