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>Essentially, wherever AC gets rolled out, heat-related death plunges. Taking Barreca’s estimate and applying it to Europe suggests that as many as 100,000 Euro
by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>Essentially, wherever AC gets rolled out, heat-related death plunges. Taking Barreca’s estimate and applying it to Europe suggests that as many as 100,000 European lives — 0.013% of the population — could be saved every year if the 80% of European households who don’t have AC were to get it.
There is another side to this coin. How many extra people will die each year due to the additional radiative forcing caused by emissions due to the AC usage? Presenting one side without attempting to estimate the other side is not a fair comparison.