Re:Anthropology professor teaching college students to live ...
by closeparen on Sunday June 11, 2017 @07:03PM
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>how about living and working without air conditioning near the gulf coast of Texas or someplace like that
The primitive adaptation to these conditions was to not live in them. Population and economic growth in the South is largely attributed to air conditioning.
Many of the places we settle are not suitable for human habitation without substantial terraforming, energy expenditure, and medical care. Chicago, for example, was built on a swamp. It took a massive Army Corps of Engineers project to make it livable. Other cities had massive baseline casualty rates until a combination of medical research and sewer projects got pathogens under control.
Early universities let out their students in the summer not because they needed to work as farmhands (the origin story for summer breaks in K12) but because they would all die of infectious disease if they lived in such close quarters while it was warm outside.
There are ways to live without modern technology, but it's foolish to try to do so regardless of where you currently happen to be.
To find a suitable site and methods for this experiment, look at where and how the homeless thrive. In particular, places where the temperature regulation problem is more or less nonexistent, like the SFBA.
The primitive adaptation to these conditions was to not live in them. Population and economic growth in the South is largely attributed to air conditioning.
Many of the places we settle are not suitable for human habitation without substantial terraforming, energy expenditure, and medical care. Chicago, for example, was built on a swamp. It took a massive Army Corps of Engineers project to make it livable. Other cities had massive baseline casualty rates until a combination of medical research and sewer projects got pathogens under control.
Early universities let out their students in the summer not because they needed to work as farmhands (the origin story for summer breaks in K12) but because they would all die of infectious disease if they lived in such close quarters while it was warm outside.
There are ways to live without modern technology, but it's foolish to try to do so regardless of where you currently happen to be.
To find a suitable site and methods for this experiment, look at where and how the homeless thrive. In particular, places where the temperature regulation problem is more or less nonexistent, like the SFBA.