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UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say
(www.theguardian.com)
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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
What you say is partly true, but Italian summers are still way too hot. But our only option was to suffer it.