r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jun 26 '26

Society The American mind cannot comprehend Europe's AC aversion

https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-air-conditioning-ac-heatwave-debate-2026-6
15.0k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

6.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

6.5k

u/Weekly-Grapefruit119 Jun 26 '26

Paris was as hot as Kuwait in recent days.

3.1k

u/No-Channel3917 Jun 26 '26

And people died due to it and the lack of ac

810

u/What-tha-fck_Elon Jun 26 '26

Most were drowning deaths from people/kids jumping in the rivers. It was brutally hot & humid all week. I just got back from there.

318

u/JungleIsNeutral Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Drownings are recorded as heat-related deaths?

Edit: please read one of the dozens of responses before you make another saying the same thing.

714

u/Leverpostei414 Jun 26 '26

It is over deaths. That is the total amount of extra deaths in society during more heat. More drownings count, more violence due to heat making people more aggressive and so on. A lot of indirect factors count when you look at over deaths

3

u/Womb_Crusher Jun 26 '26

Doesn't that just mean more people are swimming because it's hot out? And the drownings increase in proportion to the higher amounts of people going swimming?

Heatstroke is a bitch but it's easy to manage when you can take a dip and cool off.

1

u/theblueberrybard Jun 26 '26

Yes more people swimming leads to more drownings, and more people swim because it's hotter out. Thus, temperatures rising leads to more people swimming leads to more people drowning. Manmade climate change is the cause of the statistical increase in drowning.

1

u/pmatus Jul 02 '26

by that train of thought discovering a cancer curing drug also increases heat related deaths, b/c more people are swimming when it gets hot and that means more drowning and all that jazz. France is cooked beyond weather if that's how you manage data.

1

u/theblueberrybard Jul 03 '26

In my comment there's a direct cause and immediate effect that policy should actually account for in regards to day-to-day analysis of the impact of weather.

In your comment "a complete hypothetical in which more people are alive means more people can die" is giving "did you know everyone who drinks water dies". Have you graduated high school yet?