Climate unchanging

The Thermal Monotony of heating and cooling

Imagine if you ate the same thing all the time — meal after meal, snack after snack, day after day.

It would get very boring, very fast. Our taste bud and senses would get inured to eating the same ingredients. We’d rob ourselves of the enjoyment of all the variety and pleasures of different foods.

In our modern lives, we spend about 90% of our time indoors. And we heat and cool those spaces within a range of a few narrow degrees.

Among other effects, air conditioning allowed for the summer blockbuster movie in theatres, mass migration to states like Arizona and Florida, powerful Republican voting blocks among aging snow birds, and mass-produced architecture that didn’t need to rely on geographic-specific design for seasonal temperatures.

Brager argues that too much heating and cooling is not only wasteful — it requires massive amounts of energy to produce — it’s also boring. She calls this Thermal Monotony.

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