[imc-st.louis] Great Green Pesto Feast Speaker on Earthworms

[Don Fitz]

Greens,

Please tune into Earthworms on KDHX 88.1 at 7:00 pm Monday, August 30 to 
hear Stan Cox talking about promises and perils of air conditioning and 
his appearance at the Great Green Pesto Feast in St. Louis on September 11.

Don Fitz

 

Air-conditioning homes, schools, and businesses in America consumes more 
electricity than all 60 nations of the African continent consume for all 
purposes. Air-conditioning saves lives during heat waves; nevertheless, 
death rates from heat have been six times as high for black as for white 
populations in several Northern U.S. cities. And the huge energy demands 
for more routine, lavish cooling are helping to ensure that heat waves 
of the future will be more frequent and intense. Most people agree on a 
universal right to adequate food, water, health, and shelter. But as the 
planet warms, how do we decide who has the right to maintain not just 
health and life, but simple comfort as well, using technologies that 
will only worsen the problem they are designed to address?