“…the more we rely on air conditioning and other human-made cooling systems for relief, the more we detach ourselves from the urgency of the issue.”
https://www.wired.com/story/enough-with-the-arrogant-attitudes-towards-extreme-heat/
“So this is global warming, but this doesn’t tell us almost anything about heat and about how people experience heat. Heat is differential. Women suffer differently from men, the old differently from the young, the rich differently from the poor. So everything that’s political about our encounter with heat gets thrown out of the picture when we reduce our language to global warming.”
“We tend to think of the climate crisis as something that comes from outside. This is exactly the opposite of how we should really think of the problem.” It’s on us.