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Time Magazine wants to banish individual air conditioning

Posted on 7/3/21 at 5:58 pm
Posted by stout
Smoking Crack with Hunter Biden
Member since Sep 2006
167497 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 5:58 pm
AC Feels Great, But It’s Terrible for the Planet. Here’s How to Fix That

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The troubled history of air-conditioning suggests not that we chuck it entirely but that we focus on public cooling, on public comfort, rather than individual cooling, on individual comfort. Ensuring that the most vulnerable among the planet’s human inhabitants can keep cool through better access to public cooling centers, shade-giving trees, safe green spaces, water infrastructure to cool, and smart design will not only enrich our cities overall, it will lower the temperature for everyone. It’s far more efficient this way.

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.


Meanwhile, I just put socks on because it's a little cold inside despite sweltering outside.
Posted by hendersonshands
Univ. of Louisiana Ragin Cajuns
Member since Oct 2007
160105 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:00 pm to
The only people who write shite like this have never stepped foot in the south.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69355 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:02 pm to
Environmentalists are basically part of a masochistic pagan cult

We must punish ourselves to satisfy earth’s spirit
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164339 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:03 pm to
quote:

but that we focus on public cooling, on public comfort, rather than individual cooling, on individual comfort.

Slow step by step conditioning (pun intended) for communism.
Posted by TigerBait1971
PTC GA
Member since Oct 2014
14865 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:04 pm to
Between this and the homo talking bad about grilling, is there some contest going on to write the biggest bullshite article out there?
Posted by CharlesLSU
Member since Jan 2007
31926 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:04 pm to
Interesting/funny how there is never an active comment section for looney articles like this.

…….even they know it’s dumb as shite.
Posted by Fenster
Member since Mar 2008
844 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:04 pm to
Time Magazine can teach us how to live about as much as the New York Times should be writing school curriculum.
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
15476 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:05 pm to
I just dropped the thermostat to 62....
Posted by MrWalkingMan
31st Parallel North
Member since Aug 2010
6422 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:06 pm to
quote:

Privatized air-conditioning survived the ozone crisis, but its power to separate—by class, by race, by nation, by ability—has survived, too


When your argument is losing steam, just blame racism
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
64768 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:07 pm to
quote:

Time Magazine wants to banish individual air conditioning


Time Magazine can suck my salty balls.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
54773 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:07 pm to
This country has lost its damn mind.
Posted by AUbagman
LA
Member since Jun 2014
10572 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:08 pm to
I welcome the writer to come sit under my shade tree in Baldwin County AL for a cooling session. Hell, I'll open up said shade tree to transients too. I'm sure they'll stick around at the luxury cooling center I provided.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
61349 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:08 pm to
quote:

The troubled history of air-conditioning suggests not that we chuck it entirely but that we focus on public cooling, on public comfort, rather than individual cooling, on individual comfort. 



Fire the editor.
Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
5727 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:09 pm to
Socialized air conditioning, with the elite keeping their spaces as cold as they like, of course.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261531 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:09 pm to
Individual homes, individual AC...individual transportation.

Communism aint far off.
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:15 pm to
I’ll agree to this if the world will agree to reduce the human population to 2 billion and then maintain it at that level. With that many people, the earth would be a paradise where resources would be available to everyone.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119466 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:16 pm to
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we focus on public cooling


What dis? A dome over the city?
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20087 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:16 pm to
Give them a week in the Grand Canyon in late June.
Posted by Byrdybyrd05
Member since Nov 2014
25720 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:19 pm to
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
17059 posts
Posted on 7/3/21 at 6:21 pm to
quote:

but its power to separate—by class, by race, by nation, by ability—has survived, too.


I knew they would go there. Never ever fails.
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