The French don't like air conditioners because on environmental reasons but like to suffer

[TheButcher]

"With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con.

This week debate about la clim (climatisation) has once again burst out, with Marine Le Pen on the populist right urging a mass subsidised roll-out and traditionally hostile Greens conceding that some air-conditioning may now be inevitable.


There is no cure for stupid and I never get it why so many places in Europe, France being one of the big culprits like to suffer heat so that they do not potentially affect the environment in a negative way. Crazy how anyone can live in the Summer without AC in their homnes, places of business or any where to be honest.

"Currently the country has a low take-up, with only 25% of households equipped with an air-con unit. In Spain and Italy the figure is 50%, and in the US and Japan 90%.

French hospitals and schools are also only rarely equipped. Thousands of schools have had to shut this week, and medical and nursing staff complain of conditions fast becoming intolerable.

But with temperatures nudging 40C - Tuesday was France's hottest day on record - there has been a rush to buy portable air-conditioning appliances, just to let children enjoy a few hours in class, or for suffocating apartment-dwellers to make it through the night.

And more and more, it seems, long-standing opponents of air-conditioning - mainly on the environmentalist left - recognise that it is bound to be part of the country's response to global warming.

This week the head of the Ecologists party Marie Tondelier broke something of a taboo when she said that air-conditioning would be needed in schools and hospitals.

"There are places where we just can't do without it now," she said."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyqldl3p5o

[mybitches]

No wonder they have so many high end perfumes.

[Kosta]

What is not to like about Air cons, they make your life comfortable screw the climate change hoax

[deviantz]

Energy prices are high over there that might be another reason

[shoopa]

Scratch Paris off places I’ll go on vacation

[saucyadele]

So many deaths due to the current heat wave in France it's insane.


"France records around 1,000 excess deaths in heatwave
Public Health France said areas under red alert for heat had been particularly badly affected, and 85% of the deaths had been those aged 65 and over

Le Monde with AFP
Published today at 10:14 am (Paris)"


https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/articl ... nhIZYQ_Bel#

[jag]

Keep hydrated as my mom used to say.

[Affman]

Headline: Saving planet earth is leading to deaths.

[tacnet]

It's not that we don't want AC here in Europe, it's that we have never needed it before. All our homes are built to INSULATE and keep the heat in. Its only in the last few years that we have seen these massive heat waves and realized that we need AC. Ive had a portable AC unit for the last 3 years or so.

[yobilinks]

It's not that we don't want AC here in Europe, it's that we have never needed it before. All our homes are built to INSULATE and keep the heat in. Its only in the last few years that we have seen these massive heat waves and realized that we need AC. Ive had a portable AC unit for the last 3 years or so.

You can not live in LA if your home does not have central air, it's a must.

[BrentG]

They will not be too happy if they come to Los Angeles every body has air conditioners and we use it.

[tacnet]

It's not that we don't want AC here in Europe, it's that we have never needed it before. All our homes are built to INSULATE and keep the heat in. Its only in the last few years that we have seen these massive heat waves and realized that we need AC. Ive had a portable AC unit for the last 3 years or so.

You can not live in LA if your home does not have central air, it's a must.

I can well imagine. It's becoming an absolute must here in Europe too. We had TWO 40 degree heat waves just last month and that's here in the UK. We're just not used to it. We swim in the North Sea for Christ sake

[fantastico]

Why do the people put up with this are they stupid?

[TheButcher]

Why do the people put up with this are they stupid?

Yes they are brain washed by the official media , there is no cure for stupid.

[yobilinks]

Who are the biggest French actresses?