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You do realize how many people in the world live in houses that aren't even fully-enclosed, right? Usually in some of the places that will be most impacted by climate change, too. Air conditioners won't be of much help to them.
Also, do you know how much coal China burns each year?
It's crazy that you treat this as an insurmountable obstacle. Much less that there's no political cache in surmounting it.
Okay so just send in the Chinese in with their concrete and bulldoze these people's homes to build them new climate-controlled living spaces while also indebting them in higher amounts than they're likely to make in their lifetimes.
Cause that's different from colonialism how?
"Don't worry, primitives, we're here to surmount your obstacles for you. Because it's totally our place to decide that."
You appear to be suffering from an Israel moment
No, I'm just calling out the implications of your assertions.
You say,
How do you expect to surmount the obstacle? Just give them A/C units in their open-air homes? Or replace their homes with something enclosed and insulated? If it's the latter, how do you expect to do that without demolishing the existing structures?
Or do you mean to force them off their lands and put them somewhere else where you built new houses?
You seem to be doing a lot of work to try to justify your initial insinuation that global warming somehow won't affect the global south.
You scoff at wet bulb temperatures as if you have some easy obvious solution. Well, this is what your "solution" looks like in practice.
When you call in the A/C repair man, does the technician steal your property as part of the installation/repair?