Americans don’t get scolded enough for their abuse of AC. In terms of accounting for preventable waste of energy, US guzzles more electricity on cooling than most countries do on everything else.

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boc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you going to also scold Americans for using heat in the winter?

Our continent has more extreme weather than Europe... we've adapted accordingly because we value human lives. Have you?

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crote 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When you refuse to build climate-appropriate homes with things like isolation and instead guzzle giant amounts of fossil-powered energy to compensate for it? Yes. That's not adapting, that's brute-forcing.

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Numerlor 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AC is sorely lacking in the EU, e.g. right now I have one in my office but not in my bedroom and nights are horrible, but I do read a lot about people overdoing it quite a bit with AC, aiming at 18-20°C during 30s outside which is a huge energy expenditure when a healthy human should be perfectly fine at higher temperatures

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anthk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Spain's continental climate has both subzero Winters and scorching Summers.

	▲	boc 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And they had 101 people die of heat-related issues last month. [1] 3,832 Spaniards died in 2025 alone from heat. In 2022, 4,789 died, the all-time high. The entire United States had 2,325 heat-related deaths in 2023, which is the all-time high. Do the math (US pop 340M vs Spain 49M) and it gets really ugly. [1] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-records-h...

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Klonoar 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, but we’re at least not dying of sweat.

We do a lot of things wrong but AC isn’t one of them.

(Unless you’re in the PNW where they never needed it before recently, and somehow continue to build units without it)

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mcdonje 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We deserve to be scolded for a lot of things, but not that.

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bob001 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interesting, so that's the price you put on a life? And people say Americans are heartless capitalists.

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pfdietz 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Abuse" -- what a BS term. It's used just as desired; how can that be "abuse"? Because we do what we want rather than what you want us to want?

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