http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/2100253/ShowForum.aspxHuman NatureenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61120.2)http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/2957287.aspxThu, 02 Jul 2009 20:45:56 GMT8e55aff1-63ee-4857-a1e9-69fccb83d317:2957287katorleans0http://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/2957287.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/discuss/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=2100253&PostID=2957287Being from New Orleans gives me a different perspective on air conditioning from the author--air conditioning is not an excess of consumption and materialism. It is a necessity; there's a t-shirt around here depicting the air conditioner as a god, and it's true for us. The author may as well have told us how bad eating food is for global warming. Why don't pundits focus on ways to make the production of energy clean, because the amount of energy we want is not the issue, in my mind. It isn't a matter of morality, of becoming ascetics living in the sweltering heat and humidity and cooling ourselves off at night (it's over 85 degrees here at night) like nature "intended". It's a matter of politicians and the public pushing the technology that will make the production of energy abundant and clean. The kind of moralistic argument in this article, the kind no one will listen to, is just a distraction from the real problem.