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Published on: 2010-05-25
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Original language: English

Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world’s hot zones—from Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern India—Cox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is designed to help us endure, providing a potent commercial stimulant, making possible an impossible commuter economy, and altering migration patterns (air-conditioning has helped alter the political hue of the United States by enabling a population boom in the red-state Sun Belt).While the book proves that the planet’s atmosphere cannot sustain even our current use of air-conditioning, it also makes a much more positive argument that loosening our attachment to refrigerated air could bring benefits to humans and the planet that go well beyond averting a climate crisis. Though it saves lives in heat waves, air-conditioning may also be altering our bodies’ sensitivity to heat; our rates of infection, allergy, asthma, and obesity; and even our sex drive. Air-conditioning has eroded social bonds and thwarted childhood adventure; it has transformed the ways we eat, sleep, travel, work, buy, relax, vote, and make both love and war. The final chapter surveys the many alternatives to conventional central air-conditioning. By reintroducing some traditional cooling methods, putting newly emerging technologies into practice, and getting beyond industrial definitions of comfort, we can make ourselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable, too. News: Breaking stories & updates - News Telegraph Latest breaking news including politics crime and celebrity. Find stories updates and expert opinion. Culture: Music TV & radio books film art dance ... Offers news comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books films music theatre art and architecture. Requires free registration. Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji- Prem Rawat - Maharaji - Elan Vital ... Who is Guru Maharaj Ji? Who is Guru Maharaj Ji? Why do more than six million people around the world claim he is the greatest incarnation of God ... 8 Ways to Keep Your Cool Without Air Conditioning by Stan ... The torrid summers of the past few years have been among the hottest ever recorded on our planet. American households have responded to the heat by doubling our ... The Curse of the Modern Office Resilience The information society promises to dematerialise society and make it more sustainable but modern office and knowledge work has itself become a large and rapidly ... The New York Daily News reports - Breaking World US ... New York State Senate not ready for their closeup Whats good for Colt Grand jury to hear case of cop who was allegedly drunk on duty Jan. 5: Judith Clark Israel ... Magic mushrooms: A first-timer's guide - Matador Network mushrooms can be a wonderfull thing in anyone's life if taken under the right circumstances. mushrooms should never be used to merely "get high" or "trip nuts". VoyForums: Main Irish Dance Message Board I am curious to hear what other parents think about how much our young dancers are starting to look like an episode of "Toddlers & Tiaras" rather than participants in ... Environmental News and Information MNN - Mother Nature ... Mother Nature Network is the world's leading source for environmental news advice on sustainable living conservation and social responsibility. Summer Heat Wave Before AC: History of Air-Conditioning In one of his more meteorological moments science-fiction author Robert Heinlein cheekily explained the difference between climate and weather: "Climate is what you ...
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