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Re:There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis by imtringued on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:50PM (#21055019)
Using air conditioning will increase the energy usage per capita which will accelerate climate change. More realistically a lot of people will move away from the equatorial regions to the north or maybe even to Antarctica.
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Re:There is no Plan B for dealing with the climate crisis by mlthoughts2018 on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:08PM (#21055152)
Air conditioning and heating will be needed well into the hot future. It saves lives (especially of the elderly). Trying to “not have air conditioning” is unrealistic, never gonna happen.

So either we devise carbon-neutral air conditioning very suddenly, or else we prepare for hotter planet and geological-scale side effects.

(This just by air conditioning... so then multiply by agriculture, consumer media products, medical products, transportation, etc. etc.).

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