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Re: Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

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Everyone has also seen daily footage coming out of the region of the horrible events. Are you surprised that people have an opinion on that? Moreover, political, financial and military ties between NL and Israel have been well-documented. So it's a bit silly to just discredit it all by saying it's not on the same continent (and therefore irrelevant?). It's also not that far and the country has been trying hard to ali…

A party that has ~20% vote share (amongst educated) is legitimately considering degrowth. https://www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/artikelen/gr... They also advice Post Growth which is degrowth-lite, read the document yourself. > In fact, the degrowth movement, which is rapidly gaining popularity among activists and scientists, advocates the deliberate scaling back of overproduction and overconsumption to brin…

That article talks about a panel discussion. The only actual representative of the party (Diederik Samson) is advocating for green growth (and NOT degrowth). So your conclusion is a stretch into the void. Also, they only have 20% of votes because they merged with another party... You're really trying to push your observations as facts, but based on quicksand.

Re: Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

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Central-western Europe will have to massively install ACs, sooner or later, either only for cooling or both. They will not resist the summer heat in the coming years. Good for the AC companies. The most difficult step is to accept the ugliness of the external unit to their beautiful buildings. Imagine Paris with a gray box hanged out of each 35m2 apartment.

Can they paint the ugly grey box to be a different color?

Worse. The black lines of the unit will look like dirt. Any solution will be a cultural devastation.
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