Imagine if the US’s left argued for no air conditioning: they would be called Stalinists communists and be excommunicated from polite society. Yet the policy is not completely unreasonable (albeit one I wouldn’t want personally, especially since I am skeptical to even the best degrowth policies). It is certainly an opinion which should be allowed within a country’s Overton window.

To make the point further, the article states France’s right wing party advocated for installing air conditioning in schools and hospitals. Again, if a US politician did such a thing, they would be considered a Stalinist communist.

The article shows how US’s Overton window is completely disjoint from France’s. I don’t want to make a false equivalence between these two countries as I think France’s two extremes in this article both seem reasonable and the US’s right wing extreme of “we are going to cancel wind mill construction because they’re ugly” is not.