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Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 24 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

it's hasn't been needed before. i doubt hospitals in russia have air conditioning either. we are entering a stage of collapse where climate realities of thousands of years are going out the window and many places in the world are not equipped to deal with things that don't happen there, why would they be, which are absolutely going to start happening. millions of proletarians will suffer and die with literally 0 recourse agony-deep gun-hubris

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    And then there's China, where AC units are cheap and electricity costs almost nothing, so even pig farmers install AC to keep their pigs cool. I saw a video about this, and most comments were along the lines of "wow, China treats their pigs better than the West treats their humans during a heatwave" yea

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    AC's are a problem themselves since they make it hotter. Countries like the UK mostly developed in the last century and their infrastructure is built for a cold climate. China has so many different climate's that they have to build things differently for different areas.

    Even the Soviet Union had to do so. Commie blocks in hotter areas had poor insulation compared to commie blocks in forever cold regions.

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