this is a bit of a troll post and i was laughing so hard at what the french are posting about American A/C. but it does raise an important question…. Wealthier nations can afford climate mitigation (A/C, etc) while poorer nations can’t deal with global warming. Even tho it is wealthier nations causing climate change. How do you rectify this?
North Americans/Gulf states get wealthier from oil, cause global warming, and then make it worse with their mitigation
hibikir_40k on
France needs some extra physics clases in high school.
2Lore2Law on
Unironically America Derangement Syndrome. Even now.
lukasburner on
Hard to advocate for climate policy if you’re dead.
sack-o-matic on
It’s the cars and huge houses, not the AC
andrei_androfski on
*Who Melted My Cheese?*
TheRedditHike on
You see it’s actually the UK that bears the responsibility, because they started the industrial revolution that is emitting greenhouse gasses that are warming the world.
They bear a “significant amount of responsibility”
dweeb93 on
It’s not really a Europoors thing, we’re not THAT poor, we just don’t need it most of the time.
Tricky-Astronaut on
In Central Europe, where gas heating is king, increased AC adoption would _decrease_ emissions.
France is further ahead with electric heating, but it still has a large chunk of resistive heating (and also some gas heating), so increased AC adoption would _probably_ help overall as well.
In any case, it’s obviously worth to save lives regardless.
w007dchuck on
People are dying from heat.
Just build more solar panels and stop worrying about the emissions.
France already did a bunch of the heavy lifting by going hard on nuclear, I don’t know why they are so resistant to installing AC when 95% of their electricity comes from decarbonized sources.
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this is a bit of a troll post and i was laughing so hard at what the french are posting about American A/C. but it does raise an important question…. Wealthier nations can afford climate mitigation (A/C, etc) while poorer nations can’t deal with global warming. Even tho it is wealthier nations causing climate change. How do you rectify this?
North Americans/Gulf states get wealthier from oil, cause global warming, and then make it worse with their mitigation
France needs some extra physics clases in high school.
Unironically America Derangement Syndrome. Even now.
Hard to advocate for climate policy if you’re dead.
It’s the cars and huge houses, not the AC
*Who Melted My Cheese?*
You see it’s actually the UK that bears the responsibility, because they started the industrial revolution that is emitting greenhouse gasses that are warming the world.
They bear a “significant amount of responsibility”
It’s not really a Europoors thing, we’re not THAT poor, we just don’t need it most of the time.
In Central Europe, where gas heating is king, increased AC adoption would _decrease_ emissions.
France is further ahead with electric heating, but it still has a large chunk of resistive heating (and also some gas heating), so increased AC adoption would _probably_ help overall as well.
In any case, it’s obviously worth to save lives regardless.
People are dying from heat.
Just build more solar panels and stop worrying about the emissions.
I mean…
https://preview.redd.it/sflyb194u9ah1.png?width=1467&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d5279e4e2bffd60b05676e22c3ab9c3ce3d7d93
France already did a bunch of the heavy lifting by going hard on nuclear, I don’t know why they are so resistant to installing AC when 95% of their electricity comes from decarbonized sources.
French socialist says something dumb, more at 11