CNN Runs Piece Saying Selfish Americans Don’t Need Air Conditioning

After one of the hottest spells of Summer 2022, which spread across the globe for up to a week, CNN ran a piece saying Americans should be more like Europe and forego using air conditioning.

Britain was hard hit by the heat wave, reaching the thermometer topping 100 degrees for several days in a row. The problem: only about 5% of people in the U.K. have air conditioning because the temperature on the rainy island ranges from the high 50s to the high 80s in the hottest months.

So Paul Hockenos, a Berlin-based writer focusing on renewable energy in Europe, penned a piece headlined: “A very European answer to air conditioning.”

The writer notes he has only a fan in his Berlin apartment and says, “Europeans had, until recently, done their own grousing about Americans’ infatuation with AC: so wasteful in its high energy usage, unhealthy with the frosty temperatures in mid-summer and annoying given the incessant buzz of the window units!” – READ MORE

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