Paris wollte Olympische Spiele ohne Klimaanlage. Die Gastnationen hatten andere Pläne.

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1. If you want to be ecological, don’t host the Olympics at all. It’s a giant waste of money, bottomless pit of corruption, and in and of itself, a massive source of greenhouse emissions, primarily due to all the extra travel.

   If you do host the Olympics, stop pretending to care about climate by trying to ban ACs, especially if you try to externalize the costs by making foreign athletes (not all of whom are accustomed to the local weather) need to sweat in their rooms, get bad sleep, and diminish their performance. You’re only making things worse, because all the portable ACs are less efficient than if you built central AC from the beginning.

   Classic example of greenwashing that does nothing but backfire.

2. I dunno what it is with Europeans and A/C it is standard in all American homes, cars, and workplaces. It is mandatory in most workplaces now. You can’t expect someone to voluntarily submit to 43 C temperatures every day. Humans don’t live like this, they never have, and they will always choose to cool their spaces when given the choice. Better building codes could change this, but Europeans won’t allow oversized American warehouses (ie, tall places with a lot of room to move hot air away from people at ground level) to replace their quaint, picturesque streets.

   Bonus: Go ask someone to sit in a shared train or bus without air conditioning. It doesn’t happen. People would rather not come than sit in a shared vehicle at 47 C unable to move. This is why Americans stopped using transit until all transit agencies adopted AC. This is not something that can be walked back.

3. Well that’s pretty much the problem in general, only under more of a microscope now.

   We care about the environment, but not at the cost of our own comfort.

4. Google averages temp in Paris and high is around 75 degrees but might be higher due to record temps.

5. paris want to rip of their tourists just a little bit more. 🙂

6. Just use DC then

7. Guessing Arno and his Assassin mates can’t come anymore

8. Good fucking luck to the americans that will rent flats for 1000’sof € a week when they will realize what is summer in a big city in europe and that there are no fans and even less AC lmao

9. “Paris is using a different system, more comparable to a classic air-conditioning system, involving vented air, through about one-third of the Olympic Village – areas that are designated as office spaces.” Well, at least the most important participants will be comfortable.

10. Air conditioners are basically heat pumps, which are one of the most efficient machines for moving heat into or out of a space. And France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, so the idea of using AC = increased electricity = increased fossil fuel emissions is mostly moot in this context.

11. Assassins Creed free olympics

12. A crowded arena with thousands of stinky fans and no AC? You are out of your damn mind. Lol