Everything about it (indeed both of those things) is awful.
The air conditioner has benefited humanity not at all. It's allowed our species to ignore the actual outdoor summer weather, which matters. If it means that 50 million people can live and work in a sweltering hot spot somewhere where the summer temperature routinely reaches 150F in buildings that are built to be locked up air containers, that should perhaps cause us to reconsider those locations in terms of both dense living and building designs. If you don't live such an area, and you don't unless you live 1) in one of those hot southern locations, or 2) on Mercury, just open your darned windows and let in a breeze when its hot or turn on a fan to move the air around.
Of course, if you live in a modern building designed to defeat those things and modeled on a sardine tin, you can't.
It's also caused us to think that the temperature is set by the calendar. June and July? We need to turn on the air conditioner because, well, it's June or July. January? Turn on the heat. . . it's January.
Air conditioning. It's awful.
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