doin a wellness check on my British comrades
Okay cool story Im sorry you think "buildings with livable indoor climates" are a selfish boondoggle, i fully expect to read about mass casualty events from the UK and northern france within my lifetime so you do you i guess
It's not a simple choice of buy AC or do nothing
My perception reading European responses to heat waves for the last decade has been that there's no coordinated response to do literally anything, other than 
"Oh it's only one or two weeks per year (increasing every year) where the outdoors is literally hell, what could go wrong with doing nothing to address that"
Love the idea of 100F 100% humidity just being "some discomfort" btw, very British