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If they gave a fuck about sustainability they wouldn't be hosting the Olympics in Paris in the middle of summer.
You gotta wonder WTF the French were thinking when they decided to force people into the sweltering insomnia of 80 degrees indoors at night just for the sake of creating the appearance that climate change is the fault of the dispossessed proletariat running air conditioners to survive global heating, and pretending like the owners of the means of production aren't actually in a position to change how the economy functions.
They have done a bunch to keep athletes cool without AC.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91142188/how-the-olympic-village-was-designed-to-stay-cool-without-ac
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The world will continue to get hotter year by year until climate change is solved. I'd fully expect to see more AC use, not less. This won't be limited just to athletes, but it will be limited by affordability.
Humans ceasing to emit carbon dioxide is inevitable. I reckon this will happen some time before the average global temperature reaches 100 degrees C.
“Humans ceasing to breathe is inevitable”
Big cities already periodically provide "Cooling Centers" to support the large population of working poor who can't afford the sky high energy bills. I have no idea what rural communities do during a heat-wave induced brown out. Everyone gets in the lake that's full of industrial agricultural run off? They retreat into the mines, like a bunch of Morlocks? Y'all just fucking die?
But this is entirely unsustainable long term. Either we find a way to keep our large populations cool during the killer hot months or we stop having large populations all together.
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Climate change will never be solved. It wont even be mitigated.
It will just continue to get worse until it stops being a curiosity the rich invest into solutions (which will never be practical for scale) for positive coverage, and shift their money into their survival plans.. Bunkers, Sea Living (under sea or on ships), or space ships to get to lunar colonies or mars.
A small, lucky few of the proletariate might even get selected to be "Saved" along side them, because afterall.. the Rich need their menial labor.
And everyone else will suffer and die.
The athletes who get aircon will also be determined by who comes from a wealthy country. Makes a mockery of the games imo, should disqualify them all for having an unfair advantage.
Economic imbalance is baked into the games.
A runner that trains in a state of the art facility with a nutritionist and physiotherapist on call 24/7 will inherently have an advantage over a runner from a poor country that trains in their spare time at the local high school track. Acting like air conditioning is a step too far is silly.
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Yours is an interesting viewpoint. Should athletic competitions also include heat tolerance?
By France not supplying AC to all the teams, it makes it so the competition does include heat tolerance, but only for nations that can't afford to bring their own cool air.
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Why aren't Olympic games distributed between, let's say, 8-10 countries? Maybe make them continent games. Distribute the cost and benefits, and maybe make then bi-annual, fairer to athletes by enlarging the window of opportunity.
Because the bidding/bribing process is where a lot of grifters get rich. The construction contracts are where the others get rich. With your simpler less wasteful system all those worthless people might have to work for a living.
I wonder how the electrical grid in the Olympic Village will fare when it will be overloaded with probably thousands of unexpected ACs.
And I also wonder what the organizers had in mind when they designed this "low carbon" thing. I assume the houses will be used for other means after this summer - did they expect those people to live without AC, too?
Yes, that has been the norm in Europe. Most people here do not have AC.
I know. I live in Europe. But I think this should be at least considered when building new housing.
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