Stan Cox really doesn’t like air conditioning. In his “scientific” new book (and I use the term scientific in a loose and mocking manner),Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer), Mr. Cox points out the steep personal and societal price of air conditioning.
Personally, I think air conditioning has been wonderful for society. People definitely smell better. Smelling nice is good. Smelling like stinky armpit sweat is gross. By my logic, air conditioning is helping us love our neighbors.
But, but, but … air conditioning increases our carbon footprint! The ice caps will melt and we’ll be forced to live on boats with a web-footed Kevin Costner and drink our own pee!
Calm down everyone, the ice caps are not melting. There is zip, zero, zilch, nada evidence that the Earth is warming, and even if it were, there’s no proof that we humans are responsible for the climate change. To get a conviction in court, there needs to be evidence. But for some reason we have a bunch of crazy politicians burning copious amounts of fuel, all the while yelling at us to buy expensive light bulbs so we can be green.
If Nancy Pelosi actually believes that the planet is going to be irreparably harmed by carbon emissions, why doesn’t she reduce her own? I know burning my house down is a bad idea, so guess what? I don’t do it. Sister should practice what she preaches.
In an article Monday in the Washington Post, Stan Cox goes even further than the global warmingargument in his fight against air conditioners. He claims that air conditioning is responsible for the breakdown of American society. Which is interesting, because if Mr. Cox had been to a single Tea Party protest, church picnic, or county fair in the past year or two, he’d see that America is alive and well.
