France Would Rather Let Citizens Die Than Use Air Conditioning
“Ecological virtue” has turned into a public health hazard. The French climate blogsite Cliumat et Verité writes about why the French have an aversion to ACs, even when temperatures exceed 40°C. [some emphasis, links added]
In his blog post “Pas de climatisation, s’il vous plaît ! Nous sommes français!“ (Please, no air conditioning! We are French!), Nicolas Lecaussin discusses an ironic editorial from The Wall Street Journal that mocks the French government’s reluctance to embrace air conditioning.
He notes that French authorities seem to prefer seeing citizens suffer through heatwaves approaching 40°C rather than utilizing modern air conditioning.
Lecaussin highlights guidelines from ADEME (the French Agency for Ecological Transition) that discourage general AC use.
The agency states AC should only be used as a last resort for vulnerable people (like the elderly or pregnant women), and even then, only in a single room with the temperature set no lower than 26°C (approx. 79°F), due to high energy consumption and climate impact.
Lecaussin ridicules official government and healthcare service advice on staying cool without AC.
These tips include wetting one’s face and arms, eating cold soup, covering windows with homemade cardboard protectors, and turning off computers and hair dryers to limit indoor heat.
Lacaussin argues this forces citizens to live abnormally rather than taking real steps against the heat.
The Climast et Verité post points out that although public health agencies acknowledge a major surge in heat-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations, many French buildings (which it calls “thermal kettles”) and even hospitals themselves remain without air conditioning.
France’s climate is known for its warm, sunny summers – especially in southern France – and has always experienced heat waves.
Yet, despite its aging population, the country refuses to install air conditioners. Instead, it allows thousands of the elderly to die prematurely and blames the heat waves on fossil-fuel-generated prosperity.
Lecaussin concludes that prioritizing “ecological virtue” over practical cooling has become a public health hazard and asserts that France has nothing to be proud of regarding this stance.
If a prize were ever awarded for obstinate stupidity, some French officials would certainly win it.
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Htos1av
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France runs ON NUCLEAR power.
DISmissed!!!
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JOSEY WALES
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Well you see, muslims are used to the heat of dry areas of the world. French not so much. You’d think with all of Frances nuclear power stations they’d have plenty of Electric power to go around, but apparently not. And here the Euros think that Europe is Socially and Technologically more advanced than the United States. Well my friends the jokes on them. So sad that they would rather see thousands of their native citizens suffer just to satisfy some damned Elite.
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TNT
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THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY THE NWO.
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Larry Peck
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The great flaw in democracy is that everybody suffers the consequences that the majority voted for.
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Seriously
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Let’s set aside the word ‘democracy ‘…that’s an ideology …sounds good but in reality, well not ‘real’.
What the majority are ALLOWED to vote on(and subject to fraud & frankly, governmentwishes and propaganda) is minor compared to what laws are passed WITHout the majority input. Wake up!
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Peter
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in Germany it is the same, our rulers don’t want AC because the waste of energy harms the envirmont. Hospitals and retirement homes don’t have AC and if people die from the heat the pension fund benefits.
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Peter
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the true enemY of the people is their own government !
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