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Air conditioning is a symptom of civilization.
In fact, if I were in a contentious mode of discourse, I might argue that the driving force behind much of civilization is a need to control the uncontrollable. But it's too hot to do that. An historic example is roads . The first roads connecting place to place followed the contours of the land. By and large, foot paths and horse trails followed the uplands, because it was dry and relatively flat there, and crossed streams only where the stream bed allowed.