Comment on UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say

muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• brewery@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have buildings and infrastructure designed with the weather in mind though, with generations of knowledge used to make it suitable before AC was a thing, for instance external blinds everywhere, orientation of the building to the sun/winds. Our schools were built to retain heat as much as possible

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  • muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What you say is partly true, but Italian summers are still way too hot. But our only option was to suffer it.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many people here in the UK can’t manage 3 days of somewhat unpleasant heat.

  Sure, I would like to cool my house down a bit when it’s hot. But no I don’t want to spend any real amount of money on it.

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  • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s probably because you’re not in a care home or of schools age (I’m assuming?) kids and people in care are much more suspectable to things like heatstroke. Glad to hear you’re not struggling.

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• yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Genuinely interested: do you have external shutters or awnings on buildings like schools in Italy? I have to pay £500 to a council planning department to get them approved to be installed. (Which is utterly ridiculous)

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about internal shutters?

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    • yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure but they don’t work as-well because the energy has already penetrated the glass and now needs to traverse the glass again to escape, better than nothing but not as good as external shutters

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  • muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes shutters, sometimes Venetian blinds.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they’re now on Round 2 of Fascism. Maybe their brains fried in the classrooms.

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