[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I spent a few days recently in Vermont where it was hot but the wind was able to blow straight through the cabin and no A/C was necessary. No matter how many window fans I use in my apartment it doesn't come close. Buildings are not designed to do this, they're designed to pack humans together. I'd say that we need more efficient buildings but then we would also need to tear down what we have. That's more carbon!

[nerdponx]

Part of the concern with climate change is that you could start seeing literally uninhabitable hot temperatures in more and more parts of the world, which passive cooling are unable to save you from. You can get pretty far with warm gloves and weak fire in Vermont winter, but if the summer heat conditions are right, you just die no matter how tough you are and no matter how much air flow you have. That's not exactly a problem in Vermont yet, but people already die of heat stroke in the summer in the Northeast, and that's going to get worse as the climate gets warmer, with the disparity of course being along socioeconomic lines.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I mean that we wouldn't have to crank the A/C and create more carbon emissions if buildings were designed for natural airflow. Now that it's heating up you are correct that this becomes more difficult.