Air-conditioning vs Sweat

 

In Europe and in the U.S., this has been a hot month of misery for people without air-conditioning-- which  is to say, most Europeans, and almost no Americans. Like racism in the old days, air-conditioning is a topic that used to make Europeans feel righteously superior to Americans. Air-conditioning is bad for the environment, makes you sick and separates you from nature! I used to hear. (Americans are natural racists! Not like us open-minded French/ Dutch/ Brits!)

Now that Europe is actually getting somewhere near as hot as parts of the United States in the summer, and after about 30,000 people died in the European heat wave of 2003, I expect the same slow realization that Europeans will begin to act much like Americans when faced with the same issues.

Comments

[Zapan]

Also, in Europe, if you need AC in your house, it is considered as poorly build.
Then follows a rant about americans and their strange habits of inhabiting badly insulated cardboard houses, wastefull in energy.

[Air Con Sydney]

I never knew this. Did Europeans really feel superior over Americans just because they didn’t use air conditioning? That doesn’t sound like much to boast about, really.