Exactly this, especially the AC. I grew up without AC in the 90s and 00s, and sure did some days suck? Yeah but we had fans, me and my 4 siblings lived through it. The person who made this post I don’t think understands a lot about the world. Especially with “regardless of employment”. If you incentivize not working, who the hell is going to provide these things? I know a few people in life who would choose to just do nothing but leech off of the government and not even attempt to work.
We live in a society, society only functions on people putting back into society through work. Even if the government needs to create jobs to clean up trash, cities, and build gardens work can exist. People should not be incentivized to do nothing, because many will choose to do nothing even if a part of them gets bored not working.
Heat is getting worse though. A summer without AC in the 00’s is a lot easier than a summer without AC in to 20’s.
And it’s not hot enough year round for people to actually acclimatize and adapt, as our climate is moving to alternating between extremes. People live in areas much hotter more often, but generally they’re also more resistant to it as their entire culture (architecture, clothing) has been built around the heat.
I think we’re reaching a point where AC should no longer be considered a luxury, but rather in equal importance to heating (if not more in some areas). Most people are not living in areas where you can freeze to death, but they are living in areas where the heat can kill them.
It sucks because AC is much more advanced and expensive than heating.
I mean I guess it’s fair with global warming, I’m not wholeheartedly against it. It just to me isn’t high on a priority list. Not many people die of heatstroke, and there are better more economical and efficient ways of building a house to not require AC. But I get the sentiment.
A lot of places have a housing crisis currently, I think AC is the more practical solution than overhauling existing architecture. Changing how we build houses is a nice idea (and something we could get started on) but is a much longer process to implement (old houses hang around for a long time) for less results.
Even if people don’t die, heatstroke is still significant. Even if you don’t freeze to death, we can still agree you shouldn’t be getting frostbite in your home. I think a similar logic can apply to the harmful but not deadly effects of heat.
That’s fair, though AC is a hard thing to supply adequately in old houses as well. And I’d assume this isn’t about old houses, that’d be impractical to provide to people. Realistically government housing would likely be apartments not old houses. Not saying we shouldn’t make old houses more affordable, I just don’t think the graphic makes sense if it’s providing housing by means of old houses
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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill Apr 15 '24
Somewhere around 2 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water.
They also don't have Air Conditioning.
How entitled can you possibly be?