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I'm really not sure I'd even rather live in something that was just "more like" a savannah than a windowless office. Offices usually have stuff in them, and... air conditioning.
Making bland air that doesn't taste of anything, except perhaps paper dust. Nobody's saying you can't temperature-control the place; if you don't like the literal savannah, how about a nice temperate forest on a summer's day in European latitudes? With enough green stuff to give the air freshness, and the occasional animal? I suggest that you are not thinking specifically enough.
Hmm, there seems to be a general communication problem here. Saying "more like X than Y" will only succeed at communicating, if others share your intuitions about the most salient differences between X and Y.
I doubt that air temperature was what EY was alluding to. The “From Cro-Magnons to Consumers” parable (p. 2) and “The Natural-Living Test” (p. 331) in Spent by Geoffrey Miller make the point I think EY was trying to make much more clearly.
(And even wrt air temperature, don't fall for the typical mind fallacy. I mean, all those people going on summer holiday in Florida can't be all masochists, can they? My mother's favourite temperature is at least 5 °C higher than mine.)