Nor can anyone credibly quantify precisely how someone not recycling their Coke cans is directly going to impact it. But there’s just no way that anyone can possibly control the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. You can control the temperature of your home - sort of. It’s really just a matter of priorities.Īs for air conditioning units sold on the European market representing any kind of significant environmental risk - if that was the case, they would already be banned. Indeed, even in France, where energy costs have skyrocketed ever since Europe cut itself off from its cheap Russian energy supply, it’s still possible to run a couple of air conditioners for about the price of a daily trip to Starbucks.
“How can you possibly afford TWO air conditioners?” she yelled. But then when we crossed paths in the building’s entrance, her frustrations boiled over revealing a more discreet motivation. One wrote on behalf of all the others to the building management last year complaining about the impact on the environment. Personally, that means two portable air conditioners for my Paris apartment which have sparked a revolt among the elderly residents in my building who can see the air evacuation tubes in windows. In the case of extreme heat, that would logically mean availing oneself of the available modern technological tools to cool off. Given that incident occurred 20 years ago, you’d think that we’d have stopped talking about heat waves by now - if only because a hallmark of human evolution has always been the ability to adapt to our environment. In addition to panic over pretty typical summer heat, the season has also become a time to dredge up tales of heat-related mass casualties like the “deadly summer of 2003” when the French had all taken off for their usual paid vacations, leaving the elderly in non-air-conditioned care homes vulnerable to an intense heat wave. I just sat in my air conditioned apartment, chillin’ like a villain - whose superpower is being impervious to air conditioning-related guilt trips. PARIS - Fresh off the latest French riots, the country didn’t even have time to catch its breath before being bombarded with nanny state heat-wave alerts.
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