The answer is money.
Can’t get in the way of those revenue streams, that’s socialism!
You mean that it’s NOT a good idea to move to the middle of the desert, pump in water from afar, and burn up ungodly amounts of fossil fuels in an attempt to stay cool?
I see your logic, and I raise you… “golf”. (I win! And then we all lose…)
I get what you’re saying but heaters are way worse than air conditioners in terms of emissions. People in New England getting diesel fuel — branded as “heating oil” — deliveries in winter isn’t questioned in the same way as Phoenix residents running their (electric) A/C is.
The American Southwest has been continuously inhabited for millennia. I don’t live there but I know I get lectured about where I live — New Orleans — by smug fools whose framework for understanding the world seems to come entirely from the Grasshopper and the Ant fable where preparing for winter makes you morally superior to everyone else.
temperatures reached a record 128 degrees Fahrenheit.
Which is about as hot as a water heater.
The last sentence ends with:
we are the problem.
The answer to the title question is chasing after short-term profits at the expense of all else - as we all understood perfectly before it was asked - and therefore the true underlying answer is bc clickbait title gets more clicks if it seems to ask a simple question than if it does not.
The article itself seemed mostly fine, if extremely wordy and rambling, but perhaps I was so put out by that “trick” with the title that I did not give it a fair chance - it just bugs me so much when people chase short-term profits to the exclusion of all other considerations, that I find it difficult to look past that effect:-|.
growing up, the most common ‘counterargument’ (read: dismission) to ‘global warming’ i heard was ‘great, i love summer!’
i had to become a singer before i had the lung capacity to sigh hard enough.
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Coming from the UK where we often have cold wet weather, a nice warm summer sounds wonderful.
“You want warm weather? How about we destroy the planet”
oh wait no please, not like that
how else are the British supposed to find all their archaeological sites?
The orphans must be crushed.
HMMMMMMMM, I wonder why? 🤔
