I’m an American living in Europe, so every summer, I hear a lot about air conditioning. Europeans love to tell me about how it’s good that Europe is largely not air conditioned; after all, air conditioning is just a high carbon luxury. Americans are just too used to their creature comforts, they say; if you’re serious about combating climate change, you have to stop relying on AC.
This is wrong. Increasingly, air conditioning isn’t a luxury. It is survival technology.
Air Conditioning Is A Survival Technology
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I’m an American living in Europe, so every summer, I hear a lot about air conditioning. Europeans love to tell me about how it’s good that Europe is largely not air conditioned; after all, air conditioning is just a high carbon luxury. Americans are just too used to their creature comforts, they say; if you’re serious about combating climate change, you have to stop relying on AC.
This is wrong. Increasingly, air conditioning isn’t a luxury. It is survival technology.