Posted on 09/26/2015 5:39:52 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
Yes! Thousands have died in US cities and Europe during heat waves. Sorry Pope, air conditioning is not a luxury.
Me, too. I'm all poped out.
Leni
The other day, though, Pope-bashing (which I generally support with this guy) devolved into the usual ugliness - let’s sell of The Pieta! Better yet, let’s destroy the Pieta! They say the Rosary! They have billions of dollars hidden behind the altar! They decorate skeletons! On and on infinitum. Really upsetting to me.
I do understand you.
That’s like saying you hate America because Obama is president.
I’m talking about site policy, not what some posters do
I agree, I grew up in Texas without a/c and I never want to be without it again! ....There was an article that shocked me within the last year. I had never thought of it before. It was entitled something like “Sam Colt did not tame the West,it was the Carriers” or something like that. It showed the size of cities pre A/c and twenty years later. Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Houston, etc. From pueblos to vibrant cities in twenty years. Plain amazing all from American ingenuity.
Pictured here is one of the halls of the Vatican - no doubt climate controlled for everybody's comfort and paid for out of the tax-free weekly collections that millions of poor and working class Catholics toss in the collection plates at church every Sunday.
I say he should shut his mouth about politics and Capitalism - the same Capitalist system that fills his coffers every Sunday - and go back to enjoying his riches and being the mostly useless religious figurehead that he is supposed to be.
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of course the intellectual foundations go way back.
but that is the beauty of capitalism is that it lines up technology, science, demand, capital, production, distribution, etc.
We don’t get iPhones without all of the above. And when all of the above are present, that’s ...capitalism....
But yeah, you are so right. We can’t move forward without pure math, scientific research, etc. Incredibly important.
Lol
Mr. Pope seems not to understand how many lives have been saved because of air conditioning. People used to die in their apartments in the summer in New York (and everywhere else) from heat stroke. Now he thinks there’s an impending global warming coming and he want’s to stop people from using Air Conditioning.
Either this is the stupidest Pope in history or the most evil. Maybe both.
We should start by turning off the air conditioning in prisons. That would be a start to "help climate change".
Then make it illegal to use Air Conditioning in an Abortion clinic. That could make people think twice about getting an abortion in the summer.
Then we turn off the air conditioning in Congress. They would probably recess for the whole summer. That should shorten the amount of time these tyrants have to rob us of our liberty.
Progress...
Does anyone else remember, I think it was in the mid 1990s, that hundreds of people in Chicago died during a heat wave?
If I recall correctly, deaths were occurring due to:
1. lack of air conditioning in many old apartment buildings in Chicago
2. temperatures over 100 degrees
3. People in the south and west side ghettos were afraid to open windows to cool off, due to fear of the crime which is so common in the ghetto.
See chapter 2: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html
There were more than a couple of deadly summers in Chicago.
103 degrees here in Chatsworth, CA today. I have the a/c on as I do on all hot days! Plus in the winter I turn the heat on.
In the summer, I believe in God and Air Conditioning, and not necessarily in that order.
“Rails against air conditioning, doesn’t even mention abortion.”
Huh. Seems like our priorities are somewhat skewed.
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