[yes_really]

> Air conditioning is simply not necessary in many places in Europe.

67 thousand people are dying each year in Europe from extreme heat, compared to 3k in the US. I'm sure AC "is not necessary in some places in Europe", but this lack of AC is a real material difference and has real, obviously negative consequences.

[flohofwoe]

Maybe climate change just doesn't affect most parts of the US as hard as parts of Europe?

E.g. see: https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/09/23/more-than-62000-di...

    "Europe is the continent that is warming most quickly, at twice the global average,” says Tomáš Janoš, ISGlobal and Recetox researcher and first author of the study.

Historically you didn't need air conditioning in Europe to survive the summer, but that seems to change very quickly.