Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.
Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn’t doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.
Climatisation in an extreme heatwave is as much a human right for all people as heating during a extreme cold snap. Period.
There is no dilemma “AC or climate action”. Both are necessary.
There’s a difference between necessary AC and unnecessary AC. How do you find it?
You can’t. But I don’t care about personal responsibility type morality politics. The answer is to increase renewables and battery capacity to not have to care.
Not caring is how we got into this deadly mess. It seems that you also don’t know what thermal pollution is.
I looked it up. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with AC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution it’s about the effect of industrial and urban wastewater on bodies of water. How is that relevant to the discussion?
it happens in the air too, it’s just more studied in waterways. It’s also known as heat pollution or thermal discharge.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114406
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359431108001725?via=ihub
AC moves heat, usually from indoors to somewhere outside a wall.