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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.”
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.
The window unit I installed came with an adjustable/universal mounting kit. As long as the unit itself is smaller than the opened window height and width, you're good to go. A cordless drill and about 30 minutes is all it took to install.
I know you're kinda just talking shit here but there were several instances last week when I was close to knocked out by people's body odor. That situation really adds to the misery. I can't imagine how malodorous public transit was during the heatwave.
fr*nch are now on the "satellite man did this" level of cope, as they're getting raped and stabbed in the boiling heat. What a pathetic group of individuals, thank goodness Islam is now going to civilize that lot.
I never said America wasn't right. I'm sitting next to my probably-illegal AC unit as we speak. The French government, on the other hand, can go fuck itself gently with a red-hot chainsaw.
Greenhouse gas emissions are a meme, all of this shit is pseudoscience bullshit. The earth just goes through different climate periods, like seasons but on a larger scale, ice ages, warm periods like the medieval warm period.
If a group of people are too stupid and suicidal to just install central air then they deserve to die of heat stroke. Nothing they are doing is having any impact on the environment or the weather anyway.
Isn't France majority nigger by now? They're used to the desert heat, they don't need no capitalist colonizer tech like AC.
I find it amusing in an insane way that the insane leftards have started preaching that the people that use AC are responsible for (((global warming))) and that it would be better if we just all cooked in the heat cause that would stop global warming and it would all go back to normal. Only focusing on the evil capitalist West, not on the poor innocent East, that has more CO2 output than the West due to it being the center of world manufacturing, but because they're not dirty capitalists it's all okay. (spoiler: they are capitalists too, just the kind that is on their side).
Earth's temperature is largely dependent on the solar irradiation it receives, greenhouse gases aren't enough of an effect on its atmosphere to have the influence on the temperature rise that we've seen. The Earth's own systems (volcanoes) emit more greenhouse gases than humans do, and CO2 has been multiple orders of magnitude higher in the past, before humans even mass industrialized.
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.
They can, this bullshit is just 100% ideological, it's the Yookay and Western Yuropean shitholes that spread this anti-AC propaganda and draft retarded municipal ordinances which makes it downright impossible to install an AC unit. On the other hand, if you tell a Greek that he can't install an AC in his house, he'll fucking shank you. I'm not even joking btw, Greece has the highest AC penetration in Europe, with large cities like Athens having 99% of houses, flats and buildings with AC and their economy is famously in the dumpster.
The window unit I installed came with an adjustable/universal mounting kit. As long as the unit itself is smaller than the opened window height and width, you're good to go. A cordless drill and about 30 minutes is all it took to install.
I'm pretty sure that when you take economic output into account the USA is one of the lowest out there. Yeah, we're the second biggest producer, but we're a nation of over 350 million people, and very few of them are living in abject poverty unlike China or India.
A lot of European hospitals don't have AC though. Like... the one place you'd expect a controlled climate would be mandatory simply because of all the sick people there, but no.
I never said America wasn't right. I'm sitting next to my probably-illegal AC unit as we speak. The French government, on the other hand, can go fuck itself gently with a red-hot chainsaw.
The AC debate is amazing as it encapsulates the cucked state of the average euros that even the most basic piece of comfort technology, widely available even in the third world, is out of their reach due to economical and legal restrictions.
All the smug "we are better than you yanks" arguments are getting frayed at the seams. Or more correctly, melted at the connections.
