Anything that makes life better for the average human is a target for the "green" left.
CNN (6/9/23) reports: "When the temperature soared to 99 degrees Fahrenheit last month, Singapore resident Chee Kuan Chew saw just one option: cancel all plans and stay indoors in air-conditioned comfort. 'You can’t survive without air con in Singapore,' Chee said. 'It’s impossible with the heat.' The 20-year-old university student lives with his family in a four-bedroom flat in Ang Mo Kio, a bustling district that made headlines in the Southeast Asian city state when its temperatures hit a 40-year high in a recent heat wave. Thankfully, Chee said, his home has five air conditioners – one in each bedroom and a larger unit in the living room...Indeed, in this city, air conditioning has become almost a way of life. An office or mall without it is near unthinkable; 99% of private condominiums are air conditioned, as are the majority of public housing apartments. Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s founding prime minister, once called air conditioning “the greatest invention of the 20th century” and credited it for helping to transform the island from a backwater British colony into one of the world’s pre-eminent financial centers (one that today also enjoys some of the world’s highest per capita wages). But Singapore’s love affair with air conditioning has an enormous cost. It has trapped a nation already hot – and getting hotter – in what experts describe as a 'dangerous, vicious cycle.' It’s a climate change Catch 22 paradox that faces all nations which rely on air conditioning to make life just that little bit more tolerable.'"
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“EVs are better than conventional vehicles and will be a huge help in reducing emissions, [but] it’s still a bad idea to rely on them alone...Reducing vehicle travel and investing in other options are critical pieces that should not and cannot be overlooked.”
– Daniel Posen, Nature
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