HOW TO LIVE IN AIR CONDITIONING

Rosa says it this way: “Modern society might not have an answer to what the good life is or what it consists in, but it has a very clear-cut answer to what the preconditions for living a [future coming] good life are, and what to do to meet them: Secure the resources you might need for living your dream (whatever that might be) has become the overr

To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you

at the individual level, a meaningful response to environmental challenges consists of choices about what he calls “personal infrastructure”: “Which car? Which house? Which job (physical location in relation to the house)? Which large appliances? Which HVAC system? Which diet (vegetarian/omnivore)?

And the stadium was air-conditioned—not necessarily a good omen to those who traditionally counted on the summer heat to break a convention deadlock.