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Electricity prices climbing faster than inflation.
(www.npr.org)
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Whatever did we do before cheap oil and coolants gave us the ability to bend the climate completely to our will, to the point where we make it so cool indoors in many public buildings that you need to wear a hoodie in the summer? I like the winter and the summer because I don't have to add or subtract layers throughout the day, lots of places make this impossible because they just have to make it too hot in the wintertime and too cold in the summertime to wear your outdoor clothes inside.
How could humans ever have survived in the days before circa 1950 when such an essential, vital technology was popularized?
I wonder this all the time and I live in a climate with similar extremes to yours.
At any rate, I don't suppose you spend $500 during July and August cooling your room down to 66 F. $500/month in electricity takes effort, you need to be cooling a large amount of space that nobody is occupying, and running a large number of appliances.
Some literally didn't. You see this every time there's a heat wave, the elderly and other vulnerable people literally fucking die.
Did they die of not being able to use 4000 watts every hour of the day (which we've only been able to do for 80 years), or did they die of not having cool enough air (which we have been very capable of providing for 8000 years)?
We need to be wary of this logic of "we need the things that we have developed in the age of capitalism".