I have several friends who are associated with people who do not have air conditioning in their homes. This phenomenon isn't such a huge deal if you live in the mountains or on the ocean or anyplace where the temperature actually dips below 75 degrees overnight and/or where the relative dew point is low. But if you live in an urban area and you don't have air conditioning in the dead of summer, then you're a jerk. If you employ people to work in your home or you invite people to your house for family celebrations in heatwave-like conditions, then you're a super-jerk.
End of discussion. Or is it?
What if you're one of those jerks or super-jerks, but you claim to have no air conditioning because you're a Greener? We all know Greeners -- people who claim that using electricity is bad (but they still use oil heat when it's cold, gas for their lawnmowers and snowblowers, electric hot water heaters for their showers, etc...); people who claim that air conditioing is blasting a hole in the ozone layer but think nothing of the emissions from their multiple cars and their SUV's and their large boats with outboard motors. People who yell because someone left a light on in a room to which they would be returning in five minutes. People who won't turn fans on inside their homes but think nothing of sitting on a plane with giant turbine engines (which operate basically the same way as a fan).
If this is you, then you're NOT a Greener; you're an asshole.
It's 90 in the shade. The humidity is beyond the "constantly swimming armpits" stage. You're not a Greener, you're a cheap sonofabitch. We New Englanders are known for pinching pennies, not strangling them to death and shoving them up our own nostrils for spite.
Put in some air conditioners so your children, pets, employees, and guests don't have to kill you during the next heat wave.
NOW End of discussion.
