How to Survive This Heat

How to Survive This Heat

Air-conditioning can feel like the only way to get through increasingly hot summers, but it’s an expensive, power-hungry way to keep cool.


How necessary is it? And how necessary is it to raise our thermostats up from 72 degrees?


Guest: Adam Clark Estes, senior technology correspondent at Vox.


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