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Wed, 08/18/2010 - 9:00am to 10:00am
The consequences of air-conditioning on our health
Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Stan Cox, Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer). In his enlightening study, Cox looks at the consequences of air-conditioning on our environment and on our health. He documents how greenhouse emissions increased and ozone depletion skyrocketed once air conditioners became prevalent. He explores air conditioning as a potential spreader of contagions—of asthma and allergies and possibly even sexual dysfunctions.
Before joining the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, as senior scientist in 2000, Stan Cox worked as a U.S. Department of Agriculture geneticist for thirteen years. His environmental writing has been widely published. He is the author of Sick Planet: Corporate Food and Medicine.
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