Why is air-conditioning in hot places evil, but nobody bats an eye about the need to run heat to make cold places livable?
People keep saying that it's "irresponsible" for people to live in places like Phoenix where you need A/C to survive the summer, but it's totally fine, for example, for Canada to exist, despite the fact that virtually every Canadian would die if they had to go without winter heat.
Nobody says that it's irresponsible for people to live in Canada (or Minnesota, or Maine, or Norway, or any other cold place).
Why is it only cooling that draws such moral outrage?
Yeah and it's becoming more disparate because solar PV generation works particularly well for cooling hot climates, versus the freezing winters where there's far less usable solar irradiance and yet they use even more energy to stay warm.
People keep saying that it's "irresponsible" for people to live in places like Phoenix where you need A/C to survive the summer, but it's totally fine, for example, for Canada to exist, despite the fact that virtually every Canadian would die if they had to go without winter heat.
Nobody says that it's irresponsible for people to live in Canada (or Minnesota, or Maine, or Norway, or any other cold place).
Why is it only cooling that draws such moral outrage?