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'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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Nice strawman argument, not really what I said haha
It does not matter whether you're poor or minority or what. In Europe we all have to suffer. And 31°C is also quite common here in summer and barely anyone as AC.
There are some edge cases where it would make sense to have a right to it (medical conditions e.g.) but besides that I think it's just an american privilege debate.
Tennessee is hot and humid.
Temperatures over 104f (40c) were common before climate change.
104 is the UK record from 2022. 113 for Tennessee, a record set during the great depression.
This is above the wet bulb level and AC isn't a privilege because without it, people will die.
I took a measure from a friend's house in east Tennessee the other day. 40-some percent humidity (really good!), but 88F in the shade, 93F in direct sun, and 116F when standing over blacktop.
2500 people die because of heat... Sure it sucks but that's like almost nothing
https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/more-die-of-cold-medias-heat-death-climate-obsession-leads-to-lousy-fixes/
This was seriously your response was to back track and say, well actually, cold is more dangerous anyway?
You don't need to reply. You proved to me already that you're not acring in good faith.
2500 is still a tragedy, especially when a good portion of those deaths were preventable
Who knows, maybe next time that'll be you in that statistic. Not that it'll be a big loss for society
Houses are required to have heating so why shouldn’t we just change it to include cooling as well? Or maybe in your mind we should go the other way and stop requiring heating so we can all suffer in the winter too?
Btw plenty of people in Europe do have AC, it’s just that they usually tend to be portable units that can only cool one room at a time.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/more-die-of-cold-medias-heat-death-climate-obsession-leads-to-lousy-fixes/
Personally I don’t see how this is even a privileged question but consumer protection. If I rent an apartment with an air conditioner, yes I expect it to work.
EU generally has better consumer protection than US: would they not apply here?