One country is producing all of the world’s air conditioners. I wonder if they’re in a better position to endure wet-bulb temperatures than their peers.
Ain’t politicking our way out of this one, chief.
They absolutely can and will. This is a country that can build the infrastructure to keep people from dying of overheating. What’s more, this is the country that can export that infrastructure globally, such that its allies will see improved survivability. And that will have cascading knock-on effects.
The ability to survive climate change is the ability to operate as a global center of gravity.
I think you missed the ‘massive breadbasket failures’ part of my comment. You can’t air condition a field of rice. Well, you could, but good luck trying that on the scale needed to feed everyone once crops begin to fail globally.
You do realize how many people in the world live in houses that aren’t even fully-enclosed, right? Usually in some of the places that will be most impacted by climate change, too. Air conditioners won’t be of much help to them.
Also, do you know how much coal China burns each year?
Okay so just send in the Chinese with their concrete and bulldoze these people’s homes to build them nice new climate-controlled living spaces while also indebting them in higher amounts than they’re likely to make in their lifetimes.
Cause that’s different from colonialism how?
“Don’t worry, primitives, we’re here to surmount your obstacles for you. Because it’s totally our place to decide that.”
No, I’m just calling out the implications of your assertions.
You say,
It’s crazy that you treat this as an insurmountable obstacle. Much less that there’s no political cache in surmounting it.
How do you expect to surmount the obstacle? Just give them A/C units in their open-air homes? Or replace their homes with something enclosed and insulated? If it’s the latter, how do you expect to do that without demolishing the existing structures?
Or do you mean to force them off their lands and put them somewhere else where you built new houses?
You seem to be doing a lot of work to try to justify your initial insinuation that global warming somehow won’t affect the global south.
You scoff at wet bulb temperatures as if you have some easy obvious solution. Well, this is what your “solution” looks like in practice.
Wow, you’re so skilled at missing the point entirely. Either you didn’t read any of my previous comments or you have selective amnesia.
When you call the A/C repair man, he doesn’t have to rebuild your entire house just to make it compatible with A/C.
Not to mention, you’re the one calling him in; not some imperialistic nation-state actor guilty of cultural erasure of virtually every ethnic minority group within their own borders.
You have yet to answer how A/C is going to protect people in open-air houses from the effects of climate change. This magical “China will save them” is a silly utopian fantasy divorced from reality.
Are we talking about the same country here? Where in “southern” provinces like Sichuan there is no heating provided in buildings? And people rely on electric heaters and blankets to stay warm?
Europe wants to rebalance trade with Beijing, but can’t quit Chinese air conditioners
One country is producing all of the world’s air conditioners. I wonder if they’re in a better position to endure wet-bulb temperatures than their peers.
They absolutely can and will. This is a country that can build the infrastructure to keep people from dying of overheating. What’s more, this is the country that can export that infrastructure globally, such that its allies will see improved survivability. And that will have cascading knock-on effects.
The ability to survive climate change is the ability to operate as a global center of gravity.
I think you missed the ‘massive breadbasket failures’ part of my comment. You can’t air condition a field of rice. Well, you could, but good luck trying that on the scale needed to feed everyone once crops begin to fail globally.
You do realize how many people in the world live in houses that aren’t even fully-enclosed, right? Usually in some of the places that will be most impacted by climate change, too. Air conditioners won’t be of much help to them.
Also, do you know how much coal China burns each year?
It’s crazy that you treat this as an insurmountable obstacle. Much less that there’s no political cache in surmounting it.
Okay so just send in the Chinese with their concrete and bulldoze these people’s homes to build them nice new climate-controlled living spaces while also indebting them in higher amounts than they’re likely to make in their lifetimes.
Cause that’s different from colonialism how?
“Don’t worry, primitives, we’re here to surmount your obstacles for you. Because it’s totally our place to decide that.”
You appear to be suffering from an Israel moment
No, I’m just calling out the implications of your assertions.
You say,
How do you expect to surmount the obstacle? Just give them A/C units in their open-air homes? Or replace their homes with something enclosed and insulated? If it’s the latter, how do you expect to do that without demolishing the existing structures?
Or do you mean to force them off their lands and put them somewhere else where you built new houses?
You seem to be doing a lot of work to try to justify your initial insinuation that global warming somehow won’t affect the global south.
You scoff at wet bulb temperatures as if you have some easy obvious solution. Well, this is what your “solution” looks like in practice.
When you call in the A/C repair man, does the technician steal your property as part of the installation/repair?
Wow, you’re so skilled at missing the point entirely. Either you didn’t read any of my previous comments or you have selective amnesia.
When you call the A/C repair man, he doesn’t have to rebuild your entire house just to make it compatible with A/C.
Not to mention, you’re the one calling him in; not some imperialistic nation-state actor guilty of cultural erasure of virtually every ethnic minority group within their own borders.
You have yet to answer how A/C is going to protect people in open-air houses from the effects of climate change. This magical “China will save them” is a silly utopian fantasy divorced from reality.
Are we talking about the same country here? Where in “southern” provinces like Sichuan there is no heating provided in buildings? And people rely on electric heaters and blankets to stay warm?