: to burn coal to cool off to heat up the planet, and repeat! Except now, if you listen very carefully, you start to hear a strange sound. It's not just the sinister hiss of air con firing up in homes across southern England, it's the soft melting of national pride. 'We sneer at Americans,' says Rob Hickman, an IT consultant and author, but more pertinently, owner of a brand new air-conditioning unit in his home office in Hampshire. 'We say, 'Oh, look){kind=link}
If the British believe themselves a superior nation to America it is largely due to the things we lack: namely shooter drills or air conditioning in our homes. Air con is the perfect dupe loop (I think, as I lie sweaty and sleepless): to burn coal to cool off to heat up the planet, and repeat! Except now, if you listen very carefully, you start to hear a strange sound. It’s not just the sinister hiss of air con firing up in homes across southern England, it’s the soft melting of national pride.
“We sneer at Americans,” says Rob Hickman, an IT consultant and author, but more pertinently, owner of a brand new air-conditioning unit in his home office in Hampshire. “We say, ‘Oh, look
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