Gives “molṑn labé” a whole new meaning.
The left wants to get rid of air conditioning to kill more people.
I have it on as seldom as possible. Even on the hottest days, I'm to be found out on my porch in the humid, sultry air reading a book and sipping on iced tea. I especially like it towards evening when the fireflies, crickets and tree frogs come out.
What an unadulterated load of crap.
To do so, we’ll have to re-orient ourselves to the meaning of air-conditioning. And to comfort. Privatized air-conditioning survived the ozone crisis, but its power to separate—by class, by race, by nation, by ability—has survived, too. Comfort for some comes at the expense of the life on this planet.It’s time we become more comfortable with discomfort. Our survival may depend on it.
Not discomfort: Life-saving cooling - In 2003, in France, 14,802 died in a heatwave, almost exclusively due to a lack of air conditioning. Imagine the same here.
I'm writing this from Southern California where the temps are in the mid-90's for days on end.
Go first, Yahoo and Time - turn off your a/c and show us how it's done. Do it at your homes as well, otherwise you are hypocrites.
Anyone who criticizes air conditioning should be required to live in Death Valley or Phoenix...then tell me it’s a bad thing.
Back in the mid eighties I was listening to public TV as a couple of Senators argued about policy. There have been several attempts using policy to get rid of air conditioning. The several changes of the cooling agent, Freon being the one in question here, were made, not for Global Warming, but to increase the cost of ownership. One pompous ass of a Senator, pounding the table, said, “We can’t allow every Tom, Dick, and Harry to have air conditioning. We’ve got to stop it.” I was so angry I had to stop and catch my breath. Without air conditioning we’d have to simply abandon whole states. And, what about the elderly? Every time there’s a power failure during a heat wave elderly people die. I am willing to bet that Senator has spent a lifetime in regal comfort.
My parents had a Sears central air unit that was still working when we sold their house some thirty years later. I paid around $900 for my first unit back in the early eighties. The ones for my rental units are about $10,000. And, being Chinese, they often fail several times during a year’s time. Every time I go to do major work on one the cooling agent for it has been outlawed and costs $400-500 to refill.
Because I know all this Global baloney is intended to raise the cost, I’m very angry.
Incidentally, there’s an underground of illegal sales, installations and repairs. The laws have made it as profitable as smuggling cigarettes. There are signs up at suppliers calling on people to report illegal sales and service. This happens anytime the government gets involved to artificially raise prices, whatever their purpose.
Send him to the Central African Republic where he can live in a mud hut.
Fits pretty good with received ideas and pre-thought thoughts described here:
A MUST READ!
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Last-Chance Letter to a CRT Teacher
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?
CO2 is essential to life on earth.
CO2 is NOT a dangerous pollutant.
If you believe CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, STOP EXHALING IT!
Can’t blame me, I have a swamp cooler.
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.
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.
If they want to take my air conditioner, just stand outside my window and I’ll drop it on them.
i thought covid was killing the 21st century
or white males
or cow farts