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I live in a small, old apartment in the EU, without proper AC. I'm pretty worried about the next summer. I can crash at a friend where the temperature never wen

by jokoon 7y ago

I live in a small, old apartment in the EU, without proper AC. I'm pretty worried about the next summer. I can crash at a friend where the temperature never went above 26C last summer, despite a heatwave. I always hope that if heatwaves keep coming summer after summer, governments/the UN will take tough decisions. If nothing is done and summers are too hot, I clearly see people protesting/striking/blocking roads/etc until governments concede. My biggest fear are consumers that will refuse to adapt their consumption because they will see this as unfair rich-vs-poor restrictions. People addicted to consumerism would easily riot to denounce how capitalism ruined their living standard.

HenryKissinger 7y ago
You should get an AC unit. A window one if you have the right kind of window, or a larger, mobile one.
- danieldk 7y ago
  More AC units are going to make the problem worse as long as we are not using solar/wind/hydro/nuclear-power. Last summer when there was a heat wave here, lot of people bought ACs. Next year, they are also switching them on when it's 30 degrees Celsius outside. The irony.
luckylion 7y ago
> because they will see this as unfair rich-vs-poor restrictions Which, in all fairness, it is. It's not like e.g. miles travelled is similar for everyone in any society. You have the upper class with multiple international vacations (usually via airplane, cruise ship etc), you have the middle class with maybe one trip per year to a foreign country, and you have the lower classes with maybe one trip every five or ten years. "Everybody just has to cut one trip a year" really is different for the rich vs the poor, isn't it? The same is true for many related issues. It's not the poor families that own two or three cars (because you sometimes need a small car, can't take your SUV everywhere). What's true is that the masses will have a large impact simply because they exist in large numbers. What's not true (by a long shot) is that they consume anywhere close to what the rich consume.

by jokoon 7y ago

HenryKissinger 7y ago

You should get an AC unit. A window one if you have the right kind of window, or a larger, mobile one.

danieldk 7y ago
More AC units are going to make the problem worse as long as we are not using solar/wind/hydro/nuclear-power. Last summer when there was a heat wave here, lot of people bought ACs. Next year, they are also switching them on when it's 30 degrees Celsius outside. The irony.

luckylion 7y ago

> because they will see this as unfair rich-vs-poor restrictions Which, in all fairness, it is. It's not like e.g. miles travelled is similar for everyone in any society. You have the upper class with multiple international vacations (usually via airplane, cruise ship etc), you have the middle class with maybe one trip per year to a foreign country, and you have the lower classes with maybe one trip every five or ten years. "Everybody just has to cut one trip a year" really is different for the rich vs the poor, isn't it? The same is true for many related issues. It's not the poor families that own two or three cars (because you sometimes need a small car, can't take your SUV everywhere). What's true is that the masses will have a large impact simply because they exist in large numbers. What's not true (by a long shot) is that they consume anywhere close to what the rich consume.