Spring is the New Summer

Spring is here and you can feel the season in your bones. It’s not about the cold. It’s the endless dark, swallowing up our mornings and nights as we pounded the pavement to and from the grind. I've previously written about why winter is so bad now because today’s white-collar office worker receives less sunlight than any other individual in history.

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I've always had a soft spot for spring. We humans are creatures of contrast. A starving belly makes a meal taste much better. The leap from winter to spring does pack a punch. But here's the thing: ask around, and you'll find 90 percent of people sing praises to summer not to spring. It isn’t hard to see why. Summer season is a flashback to school-free days, a dip into childhood memories. For grown-ups, it's time to travel on vacations or for kicking back, with skies clear as a bell.

However, a change is coming. I predict spring will, slowly but surely, in the coming decades, eclipse summer as the most favored season. You can start seeing it now, but give it a few decades, and it'll be the top season for most people. How? Climate Change.

Winters Are Milder Now

I'm not one to sound the alarm on global warming. Mingling with the climate change brigade opened my eyes to how crazy some of them can be. Even recycling plastic isn’t real.

They've been harping on about the world ending in ten years for the last forty. Thankfully, some of that doom and gloom is fading away. Nowadays, even people like Bill Gates are saying the world is not going to end anytime soon.

We're finding a middle ground that acknowledges climate change without tipping into hysteria. Take Miami, for example. People worry it'll be underwater, but it's a wealthy city. There'll be funds to keep it afloat, so to speak. Changes will come, but life will go on much as before.

But it is obvious changes are happening and this is only the beginning. Lately, I've really noticed the winters getting softer. Those fierce Chicago winters from my younger days, with endless stretches of freezing cold and towering snowdrifts, are mostly a memory now. Sure, the city still gets hit with a cold snap here and there, but it's not like the old days. The city continues to have colder-than-normal years every so often, though less frequently than it once did.

Take a look at some anecdotes that keep popping up like the perilous future of skiing in Europe and the US:

The Long Spring

The biting winters are slowly becoming a thing of the past. What's emerging is a new season altogether - the Long Spring.

As winters wane, spring will start much earlier, offering months of milder temperatures and extended growth. Nature will adapt, with flora and fauna recalibrating their rhythms to this new normal. But it is in our social relations that the most profound shifts occur.

The Long Spring is more than a season; it's a lifestyle revolution. Lengthier, warmer days make it comfortable to be outdoors for hiking, gardening, and picnics, boosting our physical and mental well-being.

This extended spring will overhaul our social calendar. Expect festivals, concerts, and school holidays to shift from summer to spring. As summer turns scorching, we'll retreat to the cool comfort of air-conditioned indoors.

Spring has long been a cherished season throughout history. Its renewal and rebirth have always struck a chord with us. Now, as we witness a shift in climate patterns, it's like we're circling back to that old baseline, embracing the extended pleasure of spring once more.

Good Riddance to Summer

The flip side to winters being less severe now is that summers are becoming increasingly hotter and uncomfortable. Long stretches of summer will not be pleasant like they used to be.

There are numerous other examples

• The summer of 2022 in the UK witnessed an unprecedented heat wave, with temperatures so extreme that runways buckled and railway tracks overheated, crippling transportation networks unprepared for such intense heat.

• The Pacific Northwest experienced a heat wave in June 2021 that broke all-time temperature records, with Portland hitting 116°F and Seattle reaching 108°F. Homes without air conditioning became unbearable, and stores quickly sold out of portable AC units and fans. The extreme heat was linked to at least 600 deaths across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

• American Airlines had to cancel over 200 flights in and out of Phoenix during the summer of 2022 due to temperatures exceeding 115°F (46°C), making it unsafe for some aircraft to operate.

Air conditioning adoption is soaring in Europe due to more frequent and intense heatwaves. In Spain, AC sales spiked by 50% in 2022, with over 40% of Madrid homes now equipped, up from 25% a decade ago. France saw a tripling in AC sales since 2015, with 20-30% of homes now cooled, a significant jump from the 5% in the 1990s. The UK faced a record demand for air conditioners during the hot summer of 2022, with some retailers running out of stock.

Europe is going to embrace Air Conditioning like America has in the future and these types of videos will seem quant and nostalgic.

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In This Newsletter

1) Reasons Why Spring is Objectively Great: From color, to light, to marriage, to sex to mood, Spring is great. Let’s take a moment to objectively describe why Spring has always been the best season.

2) Spring Was the Favorite Season of Ancient and Medieval People: It was a season to celebrate as a time of renewal and rebirth. The plethora of ancient festivals that still exist today is deeply rooted in agricultural cycles.

3) How Did Summer Become the Preferred Season Over Spring? The contemporary preference for summer as the preferred season is a fairly recent development, occurring in the past 100-150 years. This shift can be attributed to urbanization, the growth of leisure culture, technological innovations such as air conditioning, and the idealization of summer in art and literature.

Reasons Why Spring is Objectively Great

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