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I think it would be helpful for many people to experience the world without the luxury of ac. It uses a huge amount of power and in most places it's just a convenience. I haven't run the AC in something like 18 months not. It's been in the upper 90s here in the states and my house has gotten up to about 86 inside. I work outside so even a few degrees cooler feels great. At night with a couple fans in the window it goes back down to mid 70s.
I understand that some places get a lot hotter and corporations are to blame for a larger percentage of our climate issue, but we shouldn't expect to live in luxury while the planet catches on fire around us. All that said I think people would give more of a fuck if they didn't sit around all day in a climate controlled environment.
steps outside in Texas 110 degree heat index temperatures
No sir. I do not like it. I do not like it one bit.
I was up in Boston recently, and the dry heat of the 80s/90s was not pleasant but bearable. The coastal air brought in a breeze and a bit of shade made a huge difference.
Then I got back down to Houston, disembarked from the plane, and immediately started sweating out my balls like I was in some kind of enormous sauna.
I don't consider mitigating heat stroke a luxury. I consider it fundamental to my health and productivity. And while I'm the first to admit my shitty ticky-tack house has paper-thin insulation and $500 electricity bills as a result, I'm not going to tell anyone to turn down the AC and flirt with the wet bulb maximum temperature their bodies can allow.
This has to be something we engineer around, not something we just endure as a matter of course. Better building codes. More efficient AC units. More cheap renewable energy and regulation on energy sales during peak usage (fucking staring right at you ERCOT you pack of greedy dick weasels). Denser housing units. More shade and underground development. More locations that can keep temperatures at comfortable levels.
Otherwise a bunch of people are going to suffer and a not insignificant number are going to die as a result.
People aren't going to do anything about the increasing temperatures of the planet until it affects them directly. When people have no place to run from the heat I expect things would change politically. Sure it could just mean we double down and further fuck the planet, but a bunch of hot and angry people would be more likely to eat the rich in my head. Right now some people are mad about it but as long as they can crawl back into their hole and enjoy some comfort however short sighted nothing will change, and our grandchildren will have to suffer for our insistence on what little luxury we have at this time.
Much of the world will become uninhabitable in the future due to our arrogance and greed. I'm sorry if your choice of living in the desert causes you to suffer disproportionately.
Its affecting Houston directly, but we still struggle to do anything about it, because the folks suffering the most are the farthest away from any kind of administrative position.
Not if the rich eat them first.
I'm not in the desert, I'm in the swamp.