Interesting article, i’d only say the way Hannah Ritchie ended it feels a little lazy.

2nd last paragraph,

In colder countries, we wouldn’t accept people freezing in their homes. The opposite is also true: we shouldn’t accept people working and living in oppressive heat without ways to cool themselves down.

I think she’d have had a better ending at least acknowledging other methods people around the world use to cool themselves.

Not only because this ending makes it sound as if AC is the only option for all circumstances. But readers could take away a soft imperiousness that people from these countries can’t/won’t act in ways to improve their own lives.

This would be a fundamentally damaging assumption going both directions. It could mean aid people receive in these countries could be poorly targeted, and aid organisers could also forego the incidence of learning from people and their often ingenious strategies for dealing with life with the resources they do have.