I don't mean to be divisive, but this meme-like stream of news articles and comments about Europeans being silly about air conditioning, from the drill-baby-drill nation that refused to even try to do anything about climate change, really grates on me.

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jordanb an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's clearly an op by people who don't want the story to be about a historic heatwave ravaging Europe, so instead they make it about dum Europeans without air conditioning (which they didn't need before).

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tshaddox an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I didn’t see anything meme-like in the comment you responded to. Or even anything related to environmentalism. To me, it just looked like good health advice.

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otherme123 an hour ago | parent [-]

In case you don't know, there is a meme in the US that Europe don't know/don't have A/C. We do, but in some coutries there are laws banning A/C below 25°C (77°F) in public places, so (US) tourist don't get the cold air hit when entering a building like a musseum, leaving with the impression we don't know A/C.

No general A/C might be the case in regions that never needed it before (mild summers, cold winters), but their presence is increasing.

	▲	ValleZ 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was fairly impossible to find a restaurant in Paris that had an AC not so long time ago. It’s totally not an issue in states.
	▲	Tadpole9181 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Something like 90% of US residential buildings have AC. For Europe, it's around 20% (for good reason, mind you). It's not a meme if it's an actual fact that many European homes are not prepared for these kinds of increasingly common heat waves, and I got the impression that the parent was showing genuine concern.

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yostrovs an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It would be one thing if Europe immediately stopped using coal, drastically reduced airline usage, quit building gasoline cars, but if anything it is only marginally better than the US. Europe mostly shifted their dirty work to Asia and North America, while restricting themselves from using air conditioning as some kind of virtue signaling. That's the problem as I see it.

	▲	bcoughlan 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's a lot to criticise of every country, but we're trying. The US is not trying () https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement#/media/File:Pa... Not aimed at all the wonderful, sane and reasonable people of the USA.
	▲	kakacik 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We literally destroyed our car industry to try to steer the incoming catastrophe a bit, what the fuck do you want more. Germany tried to be the leader of solar but that was stolen err migrated to China, whole world profits now. While US, China and rest of the world did nothing similar, just stood and let shit hit the fan hard. Gotta milk those petrodollars till the last cent because thats all that counts, fuck our children right. Yeah we are not going to burn ourselves further to the cinder to prove some anonymous yostrovs something he anyway refuses to see.