Smitty asked “Have you hated yourself over your air conditioning today?” Um, no, I haven’t. I only wish we had central air conditioning. Around here there doesn’t seem to be much need for it until a good stretch of 90+ degree weather. But at least I could go to the bedrooms upstairs to cool off. For once I was happy to clean the kids’ rooms.
It was so hot I didn’t even feel like being in the pool. It was so hot I didn’t feel like blogging. (Have you noticed? Sorry.) All I’ve wanted to do is sit in air conditioning and read a book. That’s why this article is so funny, and timely.
. .as science writer Stan Cox argues in his new book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” the dizzying rise of air conditioning comes at a steep personal and societal price.
- We stay inside longer,
- exercise less, and
- get sick more often — and
- the electricity used to power all that A.C. is helping push the fast-forward button on global warming.
The invention has also changed American politics: Love it or hate it, refrigerated cooling has been a major boon to the Republican Party. The advent of A.C. helped launch the massive Southern and Western population growth that’s transformed our electoral map in the last half century. Cox navigates all of these scientific and social angles with relative ease, providing a clear explanation of how A.C. made the leap from luxury to necessity in the United States and examining how we can learn to manage the addiction before we refrigerate ourselves into the apocalypse.
That’s all I could take. I have to get back to my blissfully air conditioned room and out of this heat and humidity.
Tags: air conditioning, apolcalypse, bad, health, liberals
I turned up my AC even more after reading this. The quoted article is more moonbattery than I can take!
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I am going to have to start a stupic liberal list so that I can keep up with all of these loons.
He fails to mention how many lives AC saves every year. Wait until the next power outage in a big city, and then count the bodies of elderly people that die from het exhaustion.
I am not even going to pick on his name, but someone should.
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