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America's Air-Conditioned Nightmare

By Stan Cox, AlterNet. Posted June 29, 2006.


Air-conditioning puts a chill on community spirit, aids the cause of anti-enviros, and just might have given us President George W. Bush.
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Stan Cox grew up in Georgia, migrated north against the flow, and is now a writer and plant breeder in Salina, Kan. (population 46,000; average July high: 93 degrees; 2004 election results: Bush 66 percent, Kerry 33 percent).

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