The news:
The book open on my table:
We know how to sustain life and live nicely in triple-digit weather without A/C, y’all. We’ve been knowing this for hundreds of years. In Phoenix, you need to basically live in caves with 50” thick walls to be well in summer. It’s known.
The inertia between knowledge and use of knowledge, hacked by capitalism and its money-focused goals, drives me fucking nuts. Same with the greed of people not understanding that living in a desert in a room chilled at 23°C/74°F with the help of a machine and barely any insulation, can’t last forever and should have never happened in the first place.
One more time, filthy rich moguls: forget about the moon and Mars. Please make prefab sustainable, passive A/C-less habitats customized by weather and start deploying those, goddamn.
A/C is unsustainable, burning a huge amount of energy while heating up every single roof running engines 24/7. It’s complete madness. It is a juicy business for all the wrong reasons.
You should move up north if you can’t take the heat, have kids and want to leave them an OK planet.