Title: How air conditioning changed America forever - Vox
Headings: How air conditioning changed America forever
How air conditioning changed America forever
When air-conditioning was first invented, hardly anyone wanted it
"the machine pretty much fell into oblivion"
PEOPLE OBJECTED TO IT FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT
SOME doctors recommended drinkING as little as possible ON A hot day
"energy efficiency - yes, that is a problem, however it is also a problem to die of heat exhaustion"
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Content: So transferring that into the modern time, I think there were many people who thought "God made bad weather so you should just put up with it." And I think the idea of dealing with heat was to ignore it. Indeed, in Victorian society, one must ignore hot weather because it did not exist. That was simply the given standard of behavior for the time. And so many people would ignore it and then keel over from heat stroke. With that kind of mindset in the population, to offer them the chance to be cool did create a lot of opposition at first. Concert at the Metropolitan Opera. Arts venues often used to shut down completely in the summer because of horrific heat. ( Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
SL: For a long time, extreme cold was viewed as unhealthy, but extreme heat was viewed as an annoyance.