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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.”
I see France is in the Anger phase of their AC grief, I wish them all the best when dealing with depression over their inferiority in the next few weeks.
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
Aside from your numbers just being wrong, how is this still not more embarrassing for the Europeans? If the solution to your heat deaths is much more feasible than the solution for their gun deaths yet you still refuse to implement it, does that not reflect more poorly on you than it does them?
The scientific evidence (those frogs love science) would suggest the global warming spike post-1950 was caused by the sudden and massive population growth in China and India, compounded by those nationals industrializing. The proper solution is for China and India to do the needful and shrink their populations to something more inline with the rest of civilization.
Notice how Europe and the USA have flater population growth? Thats despite the while baby boom, which China and India dwarf by comparison. Also worth noting that Europe and the USA have made serious environmental reforms from the 1980's onward, yet we see the spike in global temperatures despite this. The population booms in China and India explain this spike.
“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.”
They can't control their budget, their borders, or their power grid, but these cultists somehow imagine that they can get the Earth to do their bidding by throwing their window units into a landfill.
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The scientific evidence (those frogs love science) would suggest the global warming spike post-1950 was caused by the sudden and massive population growth in China and India, compounded by those nationals industrializing. The proper solution is for China and India to do the needful and shrink their populations to something more inline with the rest of civilization.
Notice how Europe and the USA have flater population growth? Thats despite the while baby boom, which China and India dwarf by comparison. Also worth noting that Europe and the USA have made serious environmental reforms from the 1980's onward, yet we see the spike in global temperatures despite this. The population booms in China and India explain this spike.
They can't control their budget, their borders, or their power grid, but these cultists somehow imagine that they can get the Earth to do their budding by throwing their window units into a landfill.
It’s basically retarded Gaia worship. If we just do the right rituals the earth will be appeased and everything will be ok. The politicians of the west are basically the Mayan religious leaders in apocalypto sacrificing the underclass to ensure that rain falls.
No argument here. Ideally each nation would cull their own populations, likely by rounding up the elderly and housing them in dorms 15 to a room. That'd help speed things along. Meanwhile this would free up resources for the youth to actually prosper and perhaps even learn and adopt Western ideals like empathy and compassion (which does not exist in their cultural lexicons.)
China is the most likely to do the needful as they are well aware of their aging population and they have experience "camping" undesirables in their society. India is way too retarded to be trusted with such self-policing so some sort of long-term famine/poisoning will be necessary.
Additional note:
Historically the western world has contributed more pollution over the last century. This is true, however, when you consider that the western populace is also orders of magnitude more productive than Chinese or Indian people it makes sense. The western world used the industrial processes to make their workers way more productive, thus reducing the number of people necessary (which are the most expensive in terms of resource use.)
When you consider how productive the west has been, and also consider that productivity inadvertently made China and India's population boom possible (thanks to the end of cyclical and regular famines) its less of a negative. China and India pollute more nowadays while having massively oversized populations that are less productive than their western counter-parts.
After seeing the euros in the us during the World Cup I realized my hatred is of their politicians not of them. I hope the European will be free. From the Mediterranean to the north sea.
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.
