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This means that safety from extreme heat is a privilege not a right.
Access to A/C for everyone is a progressive measure.
Sounds like "the plan" is working then. The poors die of heat stroke, dehydration, or other ill effects of climate change so the rich have a smaller population to subdue.
Ventilation shutdown - not just for chickens and pigs anymore
As an Aussie visiting Europe that regularly deals with these temperatures... This is so much more uncomfortable than an Aussie summer. But it's an easy fix: make AC a standard measure (the amount of shops and restaurants here that are high 30s INSIDE is something I've never seen before), make free drinking water a legal requirement, and make public toilets a thing too (so people don't need to worry about hydrating!)
American Southerner, here, and I feel for y'all. Be safe.
And people wonder why the birth rate is falling. You gotta spend extra money just to keep your children from overheating from global warming.
no one is wondering
it’s all corporate fud trying to keep the plates spinning
*Rich parents
You can book a cheap premier inn for about £45 a night in the UK.
Sure it’s still expensive, but the occasional splurge to get a comfortable nights sleep seems more cost effective than buying and running your own air con
A small window air conditioner is something like $200 here in the US.
hits Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Frigidaire-FHWC063TC1-Conditioner-Electronic-Controls/dp/B0CFYG2511
I mean, I'm not saying that a hotel room is unreasonable as a last minute thing
like, it's a heatwave and I want to be in a cool environment within the hour
but in all seriousness, an air conditioner is gonna pay for itself pretty quickly if all you want is a cool room to sleep in and not the other things a hotel provides.
That style probably won't fit in a window throughout much of Europe. Portable A/Cs can be used with a window adapter, but I think they're usually more expensive. Also the efficiency tanks.
And when it's your child's well being in play, you may spend a bit more than you otherwise would
Always wonder what would have happened if the government put the energy it put into arresting people for demanding better insulation, into better insulation instead of arresting them.
just wait until data centers 1. take all the electricity 2. cause heat islands 3. make utility bill go up 4x
Don't worry everyone, this heatwave will scare people into walking more and eating less beef and the global temperatures will start falling. In a year or two it will be back to normal.
Big industry is what needs to change though.
Stories like this make me wish I knew how to make people care as much about things that actually matter as they do about whatever mean thing a politician said the other day.
TBF the mean politicians are often climate change deniers as well.
Does the UK not even sell window unit acs? Or are they like super expensive over there? In the states you can buy a small one for like $200.
Window unit ACs work well when your windows open by sliding. Most US windows are that way, but UK windows are almost always hinged at the sides or tops which makes mounting a window unit effectively impossible.
So either you have to get an expensive fully plumbed-in unit, or a portable unit that stays inside the room and has vent hoses going out your window. Which are not ideal either.
It's been the case to now that extreme heat has been rare enough and short enough in duration that everyone has simply dealt with it. When it's 5 days in a year then you suffer a bit but quickly forget about it afterwards.
But times are changing, and we will have to soon change the way our homes are designed too.
SUBSIDIZE HEATPUMPS!
You don't need to. In Spain you can buy air source heat pumps split units that cost less than the installation, and that will heat in the winter for 1/3-1/4 the cost of any other heating method.
What's Spain got to do with it though?
Costs should be in the same range. Also, in the UK, heat pumps have an immense advantage in the UK. They can double as a dehumidifier.
Neoliberalism at its peak
The WHO regional director for Europe stated that over 200000 people died from heat (and mostly preventably) in the last four years.
hot enough to cook eggs in the heat.
Well sleeping babies have a dramatically higher chance of sudden death above a certain temperature. So yeah, keep your newborns cool.