Complaining about the heat is about as tiresome as sitting in an un-airconditioned room and sweating into the puddle of tears you’re sobbing because your body is shutting down from heat stroke. So let’s not do that. Instead, let’s ask: What is the technological masterstroke of air conditioning worth to you?
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Would you trade your smartphone, your tablet, your laptop, your Facebook account? I’d trade all of it. Every last bit. Go ahead and drop a global EMP if I can sit in a sweat-free 70-degree apartment instead of swimming in the Hudson River so my organs don’t fail. What about the rest of you?
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