We have lived for thousands of years without air conditioning. This invention allowed us to change the temperature of the environment to make it cooler than it actually is. We have grown so used to it... yet, what does it really do? All it does is make the controlled environment cooler. The environment outside that controlled environment grows warmer instead (if you don't believe me, just stand beside the air conditioner's compressors when they are running).
As we try to make things cool for us, we make the outside hotter. And as the outside grows hotter, we long more for a cooler environment. We head for environments that are artificially cooled... not realising that these are the places that add to the hot environment outside.
Do we continue to go down this spiral? Or is there a way out?
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