“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

• Upton Sinclair

Well, there’s been decades of warning about dependency on Russian gas too. Complacency

“But it’s expensive to build houses with IR emissive paint on the walls and roof, that money could be spent on buying insulation made out of petrochemicals.”

Profitability and convenience.

well there was kinda a common direction with developed countries to try to reduce what we were doing and then something changed in 2017.

Same reason I spent many evenings frantically completing projects the day before they were due despite being given weeks or months to prepare: why do something now when you don’t technically need to do it until later?

apparently EU has teh most heat related deaths compared to other countries, they dont seem very keen on adopting ACs.

Dumb bitch juice.