The first heatwaves of the season reveal how ill-prepared governments across the continent are to protect people from increasingly dangerous temperatures
Here in Germany, most people live in rented apartments, which makes it hard to properly install an AC unit - you’d have to get consent from your landlord, and then drop a lot of money into a space you don’t own, and if instead you get one of those inefficient monoblock AC units, you’re wasting a lot of electricity which is quite expensive in Germany. Also, before recent decades, it truly wasn’t necessary; IIRC, heat days about tripled since 1990, and those 40°C heatwaves practically didn’t exist.
Here in Germany, most people live in rented apartments, which makes it hard to properly install an AC unit - you’d have to get consent from your landlord, and then drop a lot of money into a space you don’t own, and if instead you get one of those inefficient monoblock AC units, you’re wasting a lot of electricity which is quite expensive in Germany. Also, before recent decades, it truly wasn’t necessary; IIRC, heat days about tripled since 1990, and those 40°C heatwaves practically didn’t exist.