Edit: i’m okay with this article. The economic ghoulism at the start seems like it’s there to either lure ghouls in to the core argument, or appease their editors who know most people aren’t going to read past the first paragraph. The real meat of it is highlighting the unbelievable suffering that is going to happen, and that ac is the only real way to even briefly mitigate.
Original post: Are they doing this from an “old people, and eventually everyone, will literally die without powered a/c as the climate gets worse” perspective or a “but my treats!” Perspective.
Because i agree with the former. Heat stress both kills outright and also greatly taxes the health of vulnerable people over time, and when it gets bad enough it’ll start killing healthy people as well as the elderly or infirm so it’s not enough to have a/c selectively as things continue to get worse.
It’s an absolutely miserable catch-22. A/c draws a great deal of power, but without it vulnerable people will, and already are, dying in great numbers. Many parts of the world cannot make due with even the best passive cooling systems and will need powered a/c.
I sincerely believe that at some point fairly soon we’re going to start seeing people transitioning to a nocturnal way of life, working at night when it’s cooler and hiding from the noon sun in the most insulated place they can find. Like basements, earthship houses, underground resting rooms.
There are going to be places where it’s just not possible to work during the day no matter how much the bosses abuse the workers. At some point physics will just knock you down.
Every summer, Texas prisoners and officers live and work in temperatures that regularly soar well into triple digits. More than two-thirds of the state’s 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning in most living areas, putting tens of thousands of men and women under the state’s care in increasingly dangerous conditions. Climate change is expected to bring even hotter summers.
The heat has killed prisoners and cost millions of taxpayer dollars in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits, with a recent fatal heat stroke reported in 2018. In 2011 — a blisteringly hot summer that the state climatologist has compared to the current one — at least 10 Texas prisoners died of heat stroke, according to court reports. The death count is likely higher since scientists have found extreme heat is often overlooked as a cause of death.
This is becoming a concentration camp tier problem for anyone living in Southern climates. If these folks lived anywhere else, they’d be added to “Victims of Communism” memorials under “Gulag”.
Edit: i’m okay with this article. The economic ghoulism at the start seems like it’s there to either lure ghouls in to the core argument, or appease their editors who know most people aren’t going to read past the first paragraph. The real meat of it is highlighting the unbelievable suffering that is going to happen, and that ac is the only real way to even briefly mitigate.
Original post: Are they doing this from an “old people, and eventually everyone, will literally die without powered a/c as the climate gets worse” perspective or a “but my treats!” Perspective.
Because i agree with the former. Heat stress both kills outright and also greatly taxes the health of vulnerable people over time, and when it gets bad enough it’ll start killing healthy people as well as the elderly or infirm so it’s not enough to have a/c selectively as things continue to get worse.
It’s an absolutely miserable catch-22. A/c draws a great deal of power, but without it vulnerable people will, and already are, dying in great numbers. Many parts of the world cannot make due with even the best passive cooling systems and will need powered a/c.
I sincerely believe that at some point fairly soon we’re going to start seeing people transitioning to a nocturnal way of life, working at night when it’s cooler and hiding from the noon sun in the most insulated place they can find. Like basements, earthship houses, underground resting rooms.
There are going to be places where it’s just not possible to work during the day no matter how much the bosses abuse the workers. At some point physics will just knock you down.
As a Houston resident, I’m here to confirm “No A/C” / “No Heating” is just social murder.
Case in point, Texas Prisons.
This is becoming a concentration camp tier problem for anyone living in Southern climates. If these folks lived anywhere else, they’d be added to “Victims of Communism” memorials under “Gulag”.
Good to see our priorities are straight. Yeah, some lives were lost, BUT THE MONEY!
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they need to mandate it for all prisons because right now they just let the heat kill prisoners and no one seems to care