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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Fits pretty good with received ideas and pre-thought thoughts described here:
A MUST READ!
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That’s how quite a significant number of old people die in Europe.
Note that the author of the book in this article apparently hearkens back to the heat-wave deaths of the 19th & 20th Centuries in these United States! The summer of 1936 was and IS the hottest and deadliest heatwave in US History. ~5,000 deaths, crop failures $1 Billion, the Dustbowl, lengthened the Great Depression, yet the CO2 levels were low? How does that work?
When little Danny lives in a cave and eats beetles and dog dung, come talk to me.
CO2 is essential to life on earth.
CO2 is NOT a dangerous pollutant.
If you believe CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, STOP EXHALING IT!
Does that thing sit or stand to pee?
Can’t blame me, I have a swamp cooler.
Draining your swamp cooler is the only swamp the government will drain.
The temerity of someone with his pedigree to think he knows anything about air conditioning, or anything about global warming.
I wonder if he understands that refrigerants are used in all refrigeration, not just air conditioning.
What a little twink!
Rich white liberals who can afford to fly their jets to their summer houses in cooler climates.
I don’t know the numbers, but I suspect that 98% of all people getting air conditioning for the first time are in the THIRD WORLD. All one has to do is look up from the street in ANY Third World country that gets even a bit hot, and all you see are air conditioners. Been there, seen it first hand.
So what’s the proposal, to tell the people sweltering in those counties that they need to dispose of their air conditioners? Why do I not think so.
Sure, all 150 of them. :)
In the future, you can have your A/C, but unless your social score is really high you won’t have enough credits to purchase juice for a car too.
Three countries with the LARGEST dollar volume of air conditioners sales (accounting for 55% of sales world-wide). Note that some familiar countries are not listed:
China: US$16.4 billion (35.4% of air conditioners exports)
Thailand: $5.2 billion (11.2%)
Mexico: $4 billion (8.7%)
As soon as all the Federal bureaucrats in Washington , DC, give up their A/C July through September, and all the office workers in NYC do the same for a summer, I am totally ignoring this nonsense. No one wants to give up their A/C. The author should go spend a summer in southern Arizona or Houston or Miami without it and then get back to us.
Sorry, I do not believe that.
Was on a call about climate change and the libs were bemoaning the lack of AC in Portland among blacks and poor. Liberalism is truly a mental illness.
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