Your understanding of what is driving Climate Change has been successfully focused entirely on a complex of guilt and shame within you about your own carbon footprint.

This is leading you to suggest that installing a lifesaving tool that takes up some energy is not worth the thousands and thousands of lives it saves during heatwaves.

Please stop denying your own humanity and the humanity of others and focus on fighting the actual drivers of Climate Change before you end up accidentally killing yourself just because you couldn't live in a way that perfectly minimized your impact.

This is NOT a slippery slope we all should be obsessed with, it is not that slippery and there are far scarier slippery slopes all around us that should be getting our attention.

Ultimately being against AC is just another form of ecofascism hiding in the language of personal responsibility to obscure the responsibilities of capital, industry and society.

If everybody starts doing that, we get into a vicious circle of more and more carbon dioxide;

Globally, we use a lot more energy to heat spaces than to cool spaces. And installing air conditioning units in a lot of places will actually reduce overall energy use and fossil fuel consumption/CO2 emissions, because air conditioning units can be reversed and act as heat pumps that are 3 to 5 times more energy efficient than combustion at heating any given space.

Europe and North America, especially, need to switch as many heating systems as possible over to heat pumps. That will make things more comfortable and safer, while also reducing overall annual energy consumption.

Cities will already get hotter and hotter even if we emit zero co2 from this point on.

This is a life-saving measure. You have to treat symptoms while you work to cure the disease.

You don't have to run it all the time, or even full blast. It just needs to be available. And when the heat wave comes, just use it to him one room, and just a little.

Cooling is expensive. My in-laws run their AC at full blast all day, it's like 65f in their house, it's cold. And then they complainb about cooling costs 🙄

In my last apartment, it came with a big unit in the wall in the living room. We almost never used it. We kept the windows open and let it be hot. We were hardly home during the day anyway.

Instead, we put a tiny unit in the window of our small bedroom. Then we'd only run it at night, and even then we'd keep it set to a pretty warm temperature. The goal was just to cut the humidity and make it slightly cooler than "uncomfortably warm", so we could sleep without sweating.