The Ecological Cost of Air Conditioning

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 14, 2021

Eric Dean Wilson, Queens College writing instructor and the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021), talks about his exploration of the use of the chemical freon to cool us down and the moral quandary presented by ACs in a warming world.

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