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Maybe the heat is easier if you adjust to living without a/c like most did pre-refrigeration ?
And die ... Air-conditioning saves many older people's lives.

As a massive heat wave bears down on Europe in coming days, France is hoping to avoid the devastating death toll it suffered in 2003, during the hottest spell in centuries. That July and August, an estimated 70,000 people across Europe died of heat-related causes. About 15,000 of those deaths occurred in France — and in Paris, morgues overflowed with bodies.
 

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And die ... Air-conditioning saves many older people's lives.

As a massive heat wave bears down on Europe in coming days, France is hoping to avoid the devastating death toll it suffered in 2003, during the hottest spell in centuries. That July and August, an estimated 70,000 people across Europe died of heat-related causes. About 15,000 of those deaths occurred in France — and in Paris, morgues overflowed with bodies.
Most of northern Europe doesn't have air conditioning. Seldom gets hot enough to really need it.
 
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