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

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Disingenuous headline which implies climate campaigners are for the use of energy intensive means of climate control in summer instead of opening some windows.

  UK needs to urgently install solar panels which could be used to power air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say.

  Would be a more accurate description of their stance. Which is far more reasonable than the original headline suggests.

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• danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …along with solar panels… right? So many schools with flat roofs, and bundling solar with AC only makes sense.

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• muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Italy never had air conditioning in schools, LOL!

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  • brewery@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What about internal shutters?

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    • muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sometimes shutters, sometimes Venetian blinds.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well it is quite hot today but it’ll cool down

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