Posted on 08/29/2021 11:16:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When did indoor air become cold and clean?
Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous, that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of them were one and the same, with occupants powerless against their environment.
Eric Dean Wilson, in his just published book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” dives deep into the history of this field. It took more than just inventing the air conditioner to make people want to buy it. In fact, whole social classes outright rejected the technology for years. It took hustle, marketing skill, and mass societal change to place air conditioning at the center of our built environment.
Wilson covers that history, but he has a more ambitious agenda: to get us to see how our everyday comforts affect other people. Our choice of frigid cooling emits flagrant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, placing untold stress on our planet and civilization. Our pursuit of comfort ironically begets us more insecurity and ultimately, less comfort.
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Who you trying to confuse with facts?
Freon was replace because 3M’s patent on it expired.
My Father told me many Years ago that “nobody owes you a living”.
(the rest of the quote was “so shut up and get back to work”) LOL
The DEMONCRAT Party has spent decades trying to prove him wrong and they have apparently succeeded.
But I pass more gas myself in twenty years than my air conditioning unit.
I invite Danny Crichton to write another article about this after spending a summer in the deep, humid South without AC.
Well, they finally realized that they can when they use the money of those who work and pay taxes, to those who do not, and that they will in turn vote for you.
“Nothing like an old R-12 Air Conditioner. Get so cold it makes your nipples hard!”
Yep.... usually tell them I don’t want to hear any complaints when your ballz are being frozen.
Sorry, but you can prey A/C out of my cold dead hands!! A/C in Florida caused Florida to boom... It would still be a swamp mostly...
Wilson is a moron. I’m guessing the cost of AC is why it took so long to be accepted.
He’s not embarrassed by that photo?
Bookmark.
Why is he bragging about being a PhD dropout?
73 degrees? Someone needs to inform the business I used to work for. It was too cold.
Thanks for the info. I was going to check.
Have no clue, just thought I would post what I saw, as I thought it was rather odd myself. 🙂
I’ve had leases that require AC use during hot months.
Yep. You’re preachin’ to the choir on that one. The article ignores that AC doesn’t just make things comfortable. It keeps more people alive. It also makes a LOT more of the planet inhabitable.
I can’t believe I forgot Arizona. Half my family lives there. My brother in law says that in the summer if you see a car on the road with its windows rolled down you give them the right of way because it means their AC isn’t working.
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