Ban a/c, central heating in all government offices, environmental groups' headquarters, and Hollywood studios
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Gina McCarthy, EPA chief under Obama, now Biden’s National Climate Advisor, flies home to see her family every weekend; no word on what temperature she maintains in her office and residence
Spain bans residents from turning air conditioning below 80.6°
New Hampshire electricity rates set to double
German natural gas prices could triple
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My father always maintained that the ruination of the country began when air conditioning came to Washington, and allowed government employees and our titular leaders to stay in the swamp year round. And in 2016, Glenn Reynolds hit upon the same truth:
We should ban air conditioning in federal buildings. We won two world wars without air conditioning our federal employees. Nothing in their performance over the last 50 or 60 years suggests that A/C has improved things. Besides, The Washington Post informs us that A/C is sexist, and that Europeans think it’s stupid.
In fact, we should probably ban air conditioning in the entire District of Columbia, to ensure that members of Congress, etc. won’t congregate in lobbyists’ air-conditioned offices.
Speaking of which, members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to fly home on the weekends. Not only does this produce halfhearted attention to their jobs — the so-called “Tuesday to Thursday Club” — but, again, it produces too much of a carbon footprint. Even if they pay for the travel out of campaign funds, instead of their own budgets, they need to set an example for the rest of us — and for those skeptical foreigners that Obama mentioned.
But, you know, it’s not just the government. We’ve been told that global warming will cause rising sea levels that will inundate coastal cities and produce devastation. I think we need to get ahead of that problem by encouraging people to move away from the coasts before things get bad. We can do that by a steadily-increasing tax on coastal property that will discourage people from moving to, or staying in, coastal cities. Sure, this will hurt property values in Boston or New York, but we all have to do our share.
