cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1225516/very-hard-choice
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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Having 50mil+ households install and run a/c (they won't save it for just the heatwaves, not to mention production, delivery, installation factors), will kick out a fuck tonne more carbon & result in those hotter weeks being hotter and longer even sooner....soooo...are we meant to doom ourselves?! Then there's the issue of increased crop failures, droughts & wildfires etc. all adding to the cost of living.
How should we plan for all that? And the rest - more & heavier flooding etc.
Not if that installed A/C also functions as a heat pump that reduces gas furnace use in the winter. Especially if decent cooling also incentivizes better insulation (which would further reduce energy use at both extremes).
Carbon emissions from heating account for about 4 times as much as carbon emissions from cooling, worldwide. Replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps will greatly improve overall annual carbon emissions, even if they blast the A/C all summer.
Okay. You fix it your way.
No no no, you don't understand, the American said to just do what you want, obviously there's no need to think about it or apply logic if there's something out there you can have but don't currently own. OBVIOUSLY the American has thought ahead about the consequences for their actions and would never do anything to contribute to climate change
Okay. You fix it your way.
Sorry, were you fixing it?
On a micro level yes. None of us on lemmy are going to fix the macro issue. Nobody is out there doing a things to stop what we all know is coming. So just make yourself comfortable until the end.
Good luck.
What a defeatist viewpoint, but you're certainly welcome to it
Forgive me. You’re right. I just saw the news and I see now that you all are protesting by the tens of millions all of the stupid climate policies that led to this and are demanding change.
How dare and American suggest air conditioning.