{"id":15795,"date":"2026-06-30T03:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:51:32","slug":"europeans-resist-air-conditioning-even-amid-rising-deaths-in-high-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=15795","title":{"rendered":"Europeans resist air conditioning, even amid rising deaths in high heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>France&#8217;s <span class=\"link\">record heat last week<\/span> has been linked to around 1,000 deaths of mostly elderly people. Heat danger is a problem being felt across Europe, which has the oldest population of any continent and is also the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The continent also has more heat-related deaths per capita than anywhere else in the world, yet it has fewer hot days. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, there have been more than 1,300 heat-related excess deaths in Europe since June 21.<\/p>\n<p>European officials are calling for change, but not the kind that may seem obvious \u2014 like <span class=\"link\">air conditioning<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>A 2007 study\u00a0found that air conditioning can cut heat-related deaths by 75%, but only\u00a0about 20%\u00a0of Europeans have air conditioning in their homes. In the U.S., it&#8217;s\u00a0about 90%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My honest response is I don&#8217;t think that should be the solution anywhere,&#8221; Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency, told CBS News. &#8220;It is an immediate response, which can support essentially those who may be vulnerable in hospitals, or in very short term can help. But in the longer term, what happens is, installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment, so it will actually increase the speed of warming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also more expensive. In Europe, energy prices are much higher than in the U.S. European governments have instead funded other ways to cool historic and densely populated cities, such as public cooling stations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/30\/64ef9b62-9875-49e1-a194-581882eda855\/thumbnail\/620x413\/cb5bd45e2267403ff42cb7fe72f842ad\/gettyimages-2282880793.jpg#\" alt=\"ITALY-TOURISM-HEATWAVE-MONUMENT \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/30\/64ef9b62-9875-49e1-a194-581882eda855\/thumbnail\/620x413\/cb5bd45e2267403ff42cb7fe72f842ad\/gettyimages-2282880793.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/30\/64ef9b62-9875-49e1-a194-581882eda855\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/1fc6877cddacde113bd2c9d8a5045a30\/gettyimages-2282880793.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">People try to cool down by standing in front of a mister spraying cool water during a heat wave in Rome near the Colosseum on June 26, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Andreas SOLARO \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Rome, wearable technology is distributed to monitor the elderly, who are by far the most at risk in the increasing heat. But Italy has also embraced air conditioning more than other European nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 56% of all homes in Italy had air conditioning as of 2024, according to the\u00a0National Institute of Statistics, and the country accounts for\u00a0one-third of all electricity use on air conditioning\u00a0in the European Union, according to EU data.<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey in France found that one in six people said they would rather suffer for the sake of the environment. 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