To Ban Air-con

Its just never going to happen.
Other things we could do are, ban all air travel except matters of national security, ban unnecessaty car journeys, ration fuel, eliminate plastic, ban heating your whole house, only allow heating two rooms in winter, make unnecessary buying of items illlegal, ban dog ownership and their waste which pollutes the waterways, and many more things which will never happen until one day they have to.

The place we stay each year in WA doesn't have Aircon. The houses are all built differently though.

Too right!

I am considering putting air-conditioning in. I have solar panels and it would take nothing from the grid.

However selling back to the grid gives you pittance. I would rather be comfortable.

@Wouldcou

yes, Ive put a video up to show - the problem is it is free once the buildings are finished <cynical>

aircon as it is cost people money to use, its purchased and then needs electric

You want to ban heating too so people can freeze to death?!

We pay to heat our homes and now we need to pay to cool them.

Aircon a problem? Whilst Russia and China do what they want and we are supposed to save the planet with our aircon? Illusions of grandeur or what?

Climate measures that visibly kill humans in developed countries are always going to be a hard sell, OP.

There are other options that were historically used and can cool a room by 18 degree C

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

Buying one on pay day

I couldn’t care less. If I could afford it, I’d have it in the house.

If you ban air con ban heating too. They’re opposite sides of the same coin.

but then think of all the drama about British people who can’t afford to heat their houses 😱 maybe we should just get over that, because it’s bad for the environment

This isn't true for domestic buildings. Some will - in the same way as some houses in the UK will. But many still won't and just use shutters etc.

But this is a good instinct! Prioritise ways to save the planet that have the least negative impact on humans.

So, yes to nuclear power, carbon trading and abatement, electrification, externalities taxes. No to keeping people in uncomfortably or dangerously hot conditions to ‘make a sacrifice’. And no to teaching the population that they save the planet by unplugging their mobile chargers.

Embracing building styles that help would be useful - but costly. I grew up in an 1800s cottage and it held heat well in the winter and stayed cool in summer. You could walk in from outside in summer and cool down easily. It had half a metre thick stone walls which isn't really practical to build now but performed so well.
I lived in a modern build flat for a few years and it was horrendous in summer. It was like living in an oven. Nothing you did seemed to keep it cool.
Now I live in a 1920s terrace with solid wall construction and solid internal walls. It generally stays tolerable - apart from the attic room which is always going to get hot. But again, good solid houses like this aren't what they're building anymore.

MangoMilkWhip

Maybe you not flying or driving doesn’t compare (but it’s good you don’t) but the whole population cutting down on flying would compare to the mega rich (and I’d guess some of them would stop to keep up appearances)

I saw this TikTok of how they used to keep cool in Iran back in the day.
They built these tall wind catcher buildings and it funnelled the wind down into the buildings. Looked amazing and shows how advanced civilisation were.

39 degrees in Spain a couple of days ago.
An elderly couple died in the next town over because of the heat.
Both 80+ so not entirely unused to the heat

But wd dont want to make our houses colder in the winter!

Makemydaypunk

Millions of people go on holidays a year, or go abroad for business reasons/ to commute even, if they didn’t, I’d guess it could compare to or surpass the environmental impact of the mega rich in terms of yachts and private jets. Sorry on the to be fair, I use it all the time!!

I can speak for the part of the Mediterranean I live in when I say this isn't true - except for the shutters.

We are fully air conditioned. I have 5 split units in my home alone. I don't know any homes or work placed without AC.

YABU OP. And utterly ridiculous.

It's 47 C in parts of India, and over a 100 people have died of heatstroke. Wait until a rapidly growing Indian middle class all starts buying air con.
We will be really cooked then.

I’ve never flown, never will. Don’t drive either. But will my individual actions make any difference the rate the ultra wealthy are destroying the planet 😭

God I hate the phrase “to be fair” in comparing the mega wealthy flying around the globe on their private jets to their private super yachts to normal people having a two week break in Spain once a year, it’s not a “fair” comparison at all.