Bailey Thornton’s Reviews > Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything > Status Update

Re: nationwide strain on energy grids:
A survey found that more than half of US families saw no connection between the energy shortage and their own households…and 36% of households thought that there was no energy crisis at all.

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Happy to know, I guess, that hyper individualized thinking has always been a theme in our country and isn’t unique to now 🙃

Houston’s mayor later said that, “without air conditioning, Houston would not have been built at all. It just wouldn’t exist, that’s all.” 🤠

That July, the country endured a murderous heat wave that claimed an estimated 9,500 lives. More than 700 people died in New York alone.

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He had defined the period for all Victorians when he insisted that, “self control was an essential quality,” and this included an ability to ignore or at least seem to ignore discomfort about the weather.