{"id":7055,"date":"2013-06-13T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2014-07-16T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:03:42","slug":"seven-reasons-for-not-using-air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/seven-reasons-for-not-using-air-conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven reasons for not using air conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is here, and one of the bloodiest battles we can have at home, or in the working place, begins: the battle to control the air conditioning. As I don\u2019t like it very much, because I\u2019m very sensitive to cold, and I\u2019m not very good at fighting, I have memorized all the arguments I have read in a newspaper today in order to convince everybody how unhealthy it is to use the air-cooling system.<\/p>\n

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  1. Air conditioning is bad for your health. It would be a good idea to create free spaces of air conditioning, in the same way as we have no smoking places in public buildings, or at least to have the possibility of opening windows.<\/li>\n
  2. Air conditioning is bad for the environment. We need a lot of electric power to make it work, and we also have the problem of dangerous CO2 emissions and the global warming. Its systematic use can increase the temperature in 1,5 \u00ba or 2 \u00ba in summer in a city as Madrid.<\/li>\n
  3. Air conditioning is bad for your pocket. With the crisis we have, if you care about your family budget, you will have to restrict its use.<\/li>\n
  4. Air conditioning is bad for the neighbourhood, or at least for your unfortunate neighbours who doesn\u2019t have air cooling system at home. The machine is in the street, so the noise and the heat that comes from it is shared… and they make uglier the urban landscape.<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cThere was life before air conditioning\u201d. Our ancestors lived without it, and it wasn\u2019t so bad. Maybe its use is only our way to impose upon the environment and its seasons, trying to look for a permanent spring.<\/li>\n
  6. There are individual and cheaper alternatives to the air conditioning: to take a shower, to use a fan (electric or manual), to open windows and sunshades, and to close curtains; not doing physical exercise during the hottest hours; to drink a lot of liquid and to consume fewer fats<\/li>\n
  7. Air conditioning is a fix, not a solution. It would be more sensible, logical, cheap and ecological to have buildings prepared for energetic saving. Buildings preserving the heat in winter and supporting the fresh air in summer would be the best solution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    El verano ya est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed, y una de las batallas m\u00e1s cruentas que podemos tener en casa, o en el lugar de trabajo, comienza: la batalla para controlar el aire acondicionado. Como a mi no me gusta demasiado, porque soy muy friolera, y no soy demasiado buena peleando, he memorizado todos los argumentos que he le\u00eddo en un peri\u00f3dico hoy para convencer a todo el mundo lo nocivo que es usar el aire acondicionado.<\/p>\n

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    1. El aire acondicionado es malo para tu salud. Ser\u00eda una buena idea crear espacios libres de aire acondicionado, de la misma forma que tenemos lugares libres de humo en los edificios p\u00fablicos, o al menos tener la posibilidad de abrir las ventanas.<\/li>\n
    2. El aire acondicionado es malo para el medio ambiente. Necesitamos mucha electricidad para hacerlo funcionar, y adem\u00e1s tenemos el problema de las peligrosas emisiones de CO2 y el calentamiento global. Su uso sistem\u00e1tico puede subir entre 1,5 \u00ba y 2 \u00ba la temperatura en verano en una ciudad como Madrid.<\/li>\n
    3. El aire acondicionado es malo para tu bolsillo. Con la crisis que tenemos, si te preocupa tu presupuesto familiar, tendr\u00e1s que restringir su uso.<\/li>\n
    4. El aire acondicionado es malo para el vecindario, sobre todo para tus desafortunados vecinos que no tienen sistema de refrigeraci\u00f3n en casa. La m\u00e1quina est\u00e1 en la calle, por lo que el ruido y el calor que desprende se comparte… y afea a\u00fan m\u00e1s el paisaje urbano.<\/li>\n
    5. \u201cHab\u00eda vida antes del aire acondicionado.\u201d Nuestros antepasados viv\u00edan sin \u00e9l, y no les fue tan mal. Quiz\u00e1 su uso es nuestra forma de imponernos al medio ambiente y sus estaciones, intentando buscar una primavera permanente.<\/li>\n
    6. Hay alternativas individuales y m\u00e1s baratas al aire acondicionado: darse una ducha, usar un abanico o un ventilador, abrir las ventanas y los toldos, echar las cortinas; no hacer deporte durante las horas m\u00e1s calurosas, beber mucho l\u00edquido y comer menos grasas.<\/li>\n
    7. El aire acondicionado es un apa\u00f1o, no la soluci\u00f3n. Ser\u00eda m\u00e1s sensato, l\u00f3gico, barato y ecol\u00f3gico tener edificios preparados para el ahorro energ\u00e9tico. Edificios que mantuviesen el calor en invierno, y el aire fresco en verano ser\u00edan la mejor soluci\u00f3n.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Summer is here, and one of the bloodiest battles we can have at home, or in the working place, begins: the battle to control the air conditioning. As I don\u2019t like it very much, because I\u2019m very sensitive to cold, and I\u2019m not very good at fighting, I have memorized all the arguments I have…<\/p>\n

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