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Paris official hits back at mockery over lack of air conditioning, saying America shares responsibility for record-breaking temperatures
A Paris official has said she holds the US partially responsible for the record-breaking heatwave in France.
The comments were made as part of a scathing rebuke to American tourists, immigrants and expats who have been criticising France for its lack of air conditioning across the country.
Over the past week, the transatlantic discourse online has also been heating up, with some Americans – many living in desert and tropical climes in the southern US – mocking the French and Western Europeans for not being able to withstand temperatures to which they are accustomed to every year.
“Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room...OMG, this is so rich!” wrote Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor of Paris for international relations, on social media.
“As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing. Your cities, which are 90 per cent air conditioned, are not unrelated to this.”
After listing Paris’s green initiatives, Ms Pulvar ended her posts by criticising the US for what she described as the country’s disdain for the planet. “So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part. Best regards.”
Unlike the US, where air conditioning is common, in France only one in four households has air conditioning. Historically, the French have been sceptical about air conditioning: an Ipsos survey published earlier this month found that 78 per cent of French people believe that it’s bad for the environment and one in six respondents said they would rather suffer for the sake of the planet.
But last week’s record-breaking temperatures have shown that attitudes have shifted, with retailers across the country selling out of portable air conditioning units and videos capturing shoppers forming long queues and tearing at pallets holding units freshly offloaded from delivery trucks.
Preliminary mortality figures released Sunday by Public Health France show that the country has registered 1,000 more deaths than previous months since the peak of the heatwave on Wednesday, when temperatures edged past the 40C threshold in many parts of France. The number of home deaths also spiked by 40 per cent during that time.
But the minister of health also warned that heat-related illnesses can last long after the heatwave has ended, and that the mortality rate could rise.
“The extreme heat of the last few days is having a delayed effect, particularly on vulnerable people but also on some younger people, who sometimes turn up at A&E five to ten days after the heatwave,” Stephanie Rist said in an interview with La Tribune newspaper on Sunday.
“For people with chronic conditions, this effect can last for several weeks,” she added, saying she expected “the strain on the hospital system to continue even after temperatures have fallen”.
In Paris, emergency services responded to 3,400 calls – four times higher than average – and treated 30 cardiac arrests during a 24-hour period ending Friday.
In the department of Yvelines, west of Paris, the heatwave claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl who died of heatstroke on Friday, while her 15-year-old brother was saved by paramedics.
So far, 74 people seeking respite from the heat have also died by drowning in France, including a man who drowned in Paris’s Canal Saint-Martin while swimming outside the authorised swimming zone.
Throughout the week, desperate Parisians living in overheated apartments slept in public parks, turning green spaces such as the Buttes-Chaumont in the northeast into an open-air hotel, or booked hotel rooms with air conditioning, steps from their apartment.
While thunderstorms helped cool the French capital Sunday night, lightning strikes cut power to 36,000 households in Aisne, Yvelines and Indre-et-Loire.
In Paris, 1,300 households have also been without electricity for 30 hours after outages hit the south and eastern parts of the city Saturday, cutting power to lifts in high-rise apartments, fridges and fans.
“There’s still time to knock on your neighbour’s door if they’re isolated,” Ms Rist said Sunday. “Everyone must take responsibility.”
Imagine bragging about making farming less efficient and making the city more difficult to get around as if that's a good thing and has anything to do with staying cool.
More Europoors die from the heat than Americans die from guns, including suicides, every year. I can confidently declare that Europe is now a Turd World shit hole. Have a chart comparing Europoor cities and American cities: Ver archivo adjunto 9207369
almost 70k burgers die to guns every year (including suicides) out of ~350m people
175k dead yurops out of 750 million is almost identical per capita
our deaths can be prevented by getting AC
your deaths can be prevented by getting rid of niggers
guess which is more feasible
almost 70k burgers die to guns every year (including suicides) out of ~350m people
175k dead yurops out of 750 million is almost identical per capita
our deaths can be prevented by getting AC
your deaths can be prevented by getting rid of niggers
guess which is more feasible
Where the fuck are you getting 70k from? Even including suicides we have around 45k gun related deaths a year. Pew Research says 44k in 2025. Even the fucking Brady bunch says 48k for 2021. I'll let you being wrong slide, the heat is probably getting to you.
They let in so many refugees even the weather is turning African. Suffah cucks! Can't hear you over the sound of my A(merican) C(oolness).
edit: Actually I just remembered something Patrice O'Neal said to Gallagher about nigger farts contributing to global warming...maybe there's something to that
(thankfully someone put it in a quick cartoon so I didn't have to post a 3 hour video for one line)
I bought a window mounted unit at the hardware store for under $200 USD. It's in the high 90's F and humid outside right now, and it's a comfy dry 72 inside. Doesn't draw much power, and if you only run it in the heat of the day, it's pretty affordable.
For all the bullshit the French are up to, this is like taking a quote from some brown Mamdami underling, and posting it as an example of what "the Americans" believe.
almost 70k burgers die to guns every year (including suicides) out of ~350m people
175k dead yurops out of 750 million is almost identical per capita
our deaths can be prevented by getting AC
your deaths can be prevented by getting rid of niggers
guess which is more feasible
I bought a window mounted unit at the hardware store for under $200 USD. It's in the high 90's F and humid outside right now, and it's a comfy dry 72 inside. Doesn't draw much power, and if you only run it in the heat of the day, it's pretty affordable.
Most of the EU member states and most councils in European cities will do anything and everything to make your life a living hassle unless you have a valid reason for an AC. Valid reasons only being hospital or some sort of store/shop server room.
Again the vast majority of These towns and cities in europe have councils that will fine you like 100 euros a day for illegally installing an AC. In some cases countired will use environmental/asthetic regulations to say Frigidaire/midea are too bad for the environment and thus can't exist.
Again for a wagie in Hong Kong or even an up and coming wagie in india or japan an AC is just common sense. But to people in eh EU they need to have their we care more about the environment mantra settled in.
I bought a window mounted unit at the hardware store for under $200 USD. It's in the high 90's F and humid outside right now, and it's a comfy dry 72 inside. Doesn't draw much power, and if you only run it in the heat of the day, it's pretty affordable.
I believe the window units either aren't compatible with their windows/are illegal.
I did see literal riot footage at the beginning of this heatwave in French stores over what stock of the in-unit ACs (the ones with the exhaust hoses that go out the window) and fans existed.
