Why isn’t giorgia meloni being lauded as a #girlboss ?

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Such a gIrL bOsS.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

You recently attended a right wing nut job’s rant.

This took all of two seconds to find. Northern Africa and the Horn of Africa are experiencing drought. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126221

And it may be raining more in some places, but that doesn’t mean that that’s a permanent change, nor does it mean that the rain is an amount that can be absorbed by the earth. https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-is-an-increasing-threat-to-africa

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

36 year old here. Girl boss is a negative term. Same as boss babe and others. It highlights a need to separate yourself in winner terms based on your identity as a woman. No man needs to say man boss or boss dude. It is self-aggrandizing. It is a cloak of feminism that hides two sides of it: those that actually start their own business (and are somehow special for it) and those businesses that catered to SAHM or underemployed women in MLM-type business. You work. Congratulations. On the other side of it, girl boss was the pinnacle of 1950s female plus 1980s padded power suit WOHM. An ideal of sexuality plus success rolled into a nice package that only reinforced the glass ceiling because you need to be a "girl boss" or "boss babe" to be successful. It became a walking SNL skit.

Not quite accurate that the male version of this doesn’t exist.

“Top G” is the male version of girlboss / bossbabe

You just can’t be rich or a ceo to be a “top g”

You have to have a hot gf/wife, look the part etc

Sundar pichai is the ceo of Google but he isn’t a “top g”

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

You recently attended a right wing nut job’s rant.

This took all of two seconds to find. Northern Africa and the Horn of Africa are experiencing drought. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126221

And it may be raining more in some places, but that doesn’t mean that that’s a permanent change, nor does it mean that the rain is an amount that can be absorbed by the earth. https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-is-an-increasing-threat-to-africa

It's Africa, are droughts really a new thing for this continent? The planet had cooled and heated up for millions and billions of years before our ape ancestors even walked this Earth. And what are YOU doing for climate change? This is DCUM, the land of giant McMansions and SUVs where people complain about outgrowing their 2000-3000 sq.ft older homes, lol

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Anonymous wrote: We don't live in a consequence-free world. The Italians should and would bear the full brunt of their electoral choices. Right wingers don't know how to govern and , there's a part of me that believes they know it. So, what do they do to mask their congenital imcompetence ? They resort to victimhood and bigotry which they know abounds in their society.

If past is prologue, this government won't last . Expect the usual from right wingers ( self dealing, corruption, rule breaking etc) . At this time next year, the Italian economy won't be noticeably better off. If anything, it could get quite worse. Tourism made up close to 11% of Italy's GDP pre-pandemic—a huge chunk of that tourism includes americans— who tend not to be the trump sticker, pick up truck driving kind . But rather the cosmopolitan, college educated, left leaning type. I'm not sure if 'we just elected a fascist' could pass as a successful tourism selling point .

Well said. Unlike other conservative right wing authoritarian states in Europe like Poland or Hungary, Italy actually offers (offered?) something of cultural value. As correct-thinking people decide to spend their money elsewhere, it is hoped Italians return to sanity. Hopefully a coalition of other governments join in and hasten this change.

What does that mean exactly?

It means that Italy offered a civilized haute couture while no one mentions culture when discussing Poland or Hungary. These countries are extreme right wing parodies. Indeed their main products tend to be truck drivers and other similar low skilled labor.

To be fair, you could not get a decent facial on hair coloring in England until Poles began to immigrate to the Country.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

Pay no attention to long-term climate changes tied to historic records for drought, flooding and extreme temperatures.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/18/climate-change-made-india-heatwave-100x-more-likely-uk-met-office.html

Ok, but this is experienced in the wealthy countries as well, is that not? Why aren't we seeing excess of refugees from our flooded and dried up and fire prone areas in the US? Most of the refugees seem to come from the unstable countries, not from our areas beaten up by repeated hurricanes, dried up rivers and yearly fires.

Climate is intertwined with other factors like natural resources, economic opportunity and political stability. There are going to always be multiple factors contributing to migration decisions. But when adverse events like floods or droughts happen, it will disproportionately affect vulnerable people who were eking out marginal livelihoods and living in marginally habitable places. You don't see so many refugees from flooded/drought-ridden places within the US because intra-country migration is less visible, but also because there is both public mitigation / assistance and private insurance that makes it easier for people in the US to rebuild and continue to live there if they wish. But if you are living in a marginally habitable area of Tigray (Ethiopia) where there is civil war AND no UN aid is being allowed in AND there is an ongoing multi-year drought, many people are going to either move or die. Those people, in my reckoning, may be climate migrants, economic migrants, and political refugees simultaneously.

Though on the note about wealthy countries, it is actually getting increasingly difficult/expensive to live in high wildfire-risk areas in California due to both stricter building regulations and higher insurance rates. Same for Floridians in hurricane areas on the insurance front. It won't be a sharp massive exodus since we have both public and private "cushions" to help people after natural disasters, but I would predict a gradual outflux and population decline in the highest-risk areas.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

Pay no attention to long-term climate changes tied to historic records for drought, flooding and extreme temperatures.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/18/climate-change-made-india-heatwave-100x-more-likely-uk-met-office.html

See above post - we are fed the same propaganda as Europeans. Makes it easier to condition population to accept lower standards of living and start treating what we took for granted in 1st world - heating/cooling, electricity, personal vehicles, single family homes, airline travel, etc as luxuries that should only be available to the rich like it's the case in the 3rd world. Because the cost of everything is going up, how will you explain to the angry peasants why they can no longer afford comforts they took for granted and have them be happy to sacrifice? Climate change and Putin.

cooling may be a given for the average American but it was actually rare or unheard off in most of Europe until recently because it was not needed. people in the UK do not have AC because they dont need it, having summers with mild temperatures. last summer they had umprecedented heat waves with 40 degree celsius. hard to tolerate something like that when you are used to 27 and have no AC. i grew up in Southern Europe and nobody had AC because it was really hot usually 2-3 weeks a year at most, end of July and beginning of August. in the past two decades we had a number of heat waves with very high temperatures starting in June. glaciers are disappearing on the Alps, drought is affecting agriculture. peasants did not need AC 30 years ago, now they do and their fields are becoming too dry.

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'The economy isn't doing well,so I'm going to vote for someone who has no history of successfully tackling complex economic issues but whose claim to fame is, demonizing people who do jobs that me and my cohort believe are beneath us' is such an inteeligent thing to do. *insert sarcasm here*

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Anonymous wrote: We don't live in a consequence-free world. The Italians should and would bear the full brunt of their electoral choices. Right wingers don't know how to govern and , there's a part of me that believes they know it. So, what do they do to mask their congenital imcompetence ? They resort to victimhood and bigotry which they know abounds in their society.

If past is prologue, this government won't last . Expect the usual from right wingers ( self dealing, corruption, rule breaking etc) . At this time next year, the Italian economy won't be noticeably better off. If anything, it could get quite worse. Tourism made up close to 11% of Italy's GDP pre-pandemic—a huge chunk of that tourism includes americans— who tend not to be the trump sticker, pick up truck driving kind . But rather the cosmopolitan, college educated, left leaning type. I'm not sure if 'we just elected a fascist' could pass as a successful tourism selling point .

Well said. Unlike other conservative right wing authoritarian states in Europe like Poland or Hungary, Italy actually offers (offered?) something of cultural value. As correct-thinking people decide to spend their money elsewhere, it is hoped Italians return to sanity. Hopefully a coalition of other governments join in and hasten this change.

What does that mean exactly?

It means that Italy offered a civilized haute couture while no one mentions culture when discussing Poland or Hungary. These countries are extreme right wing parodies. Indeed their main products tend to be truck drivers and other similar low skilled labor.

This is one of the more bigoted posts that has graced this site

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Anonymous wrote: 'The economy isn't doing well,so I'm going to vote for someone who has no history of successfully tackling complex economic issues but whose claim to fame is, demonizing people who do jobs that me and my cohort believe are beneath us' is such an inteeligent thing to do. *insert sarcasm here*

It’s sad, but the same story keeps playing out all over the rich world countries.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

What do you think is going on in Pakistan?

What do you think is going on in the Horn of Africa?

Also, this. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/16/extreme-hunger-soaring-in-worlds-climate-hotspots-says-oxfam?CMP=share_btn_tw

Extreme hunger is closely linked to the climate crisis, with many areas of the world most affected by extreme weather experiencing severe food shortages, research has shown.

The development charity Oxfam examined 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots, afflicted by drought, floods, severe storms and other extreme weather, and found their rates of extreme hunger had more than doubled in the past six years.

Within the countries studied, 48 million people are currently suffering from acute hunger, up from about 21 million people in 2016. Of these, about 18 million people are on the brink of starvation, according to the Oxfam report published on Thursday.

The 10 countries covered by the report – Somalia, Haiti, Djibouti, Kenya, Niger, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe – were those with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

You recently attended a right wing nut job’s rant.

This took all of two seconds to find. Northern Africa and the Horn of Africa are experiencing drought. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126221

And it may be raining more in some places, but that doesn’t mean that that’s a permanent change, nor does it mean that the rain is an amount that can be absorbed by the earth. https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-is-an-increasing-threat-to-africa

It's Africa, are droughts really a new thing for this continent? The planet had cooled and heated up for millions and billions of years before our ape ancestors even walked this Earth. And what are YOU doing for climate change? This is DCUM, the land of giant McMansions and SUVs where people complain about outgrowing their 2000-3000 sq.ft older homes, lol

In the five minutes it took you to peck out this reply you could have at least skimmed the articles I posted and learned that yes, these droughts are a new thing. But alas, the right winger is unwilling to read anything outside his comfort zone.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Have had a house on a canal in Delaware since 1976. The canal is exact sea level. No change in sea level completely the same as when we acquired it.
Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

You recently attended a right wing nut job’s rant.

This took all of two seconds to find. Northern Africa and the Horn of Africa are experiencing drought. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1126221

And it may be raining more in some places, but that doesn’t mean that that’s a permanent change, nor does it mean that the rain is an amount that can be absorbed by the earth. https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-is-an-increasing-threat-to-africa

It's Africa, are droughts really a new thing for this continent? The planet had cooled and heated up for millions and billions of years before our ape ancestors even walked this Earth. And what are YOU doing for climate change? This is DCUM, the land of giant McMansions and SUVs where people complain about outgrowing their 2000-3000 sq.ft older homes, lol

In the five minutes it took you to peck out this reply you could have at least skimmed the articles I posted and learned that yes, these droughts are a new thing. But alas, the right winger is unwilling to read anything outside his comfort zone.

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Because she is a #fascist.

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Anonymous wrote:She came from really humble roots. She speaks in an uncultured accent.

She about to become pm of a g7 country.

Nothing was ever really handed to her. She “leans in”

Interesting that she isn’t being championed as a “girl boss” just because she has different political views

Because she's a feckin Fascist. Like, openly Fascist. Jesus.

That’s for Italy to decide if they want to follow that path or not as long as votes aren’t tampered with during elections.

Is she running a sham election or taking over the country with an army?

I dont support her politics, but i also dont support not letting her air her views in public discourse

In talking about her an Italian said that the only good thing about her is that she is an unknown entity and hasn't yet disappointed the Italians.
Migration is driving the right wing political agenda in Europe and will become even worse as climate migrants continue to push into European countries. The Italians fell for fascism before -- let them try again.

WTH is "climate migrants"? Most migrants are from sh**hole countries. They aren't falling apart because of climate In fact many of these countries have amazing climate where there is no harsh winter, extreme weather, and where everything grows. Some of these countries have great natural resources too. They don't have more extreme weather than FL or Southwest.

I recently attended a climate lecture that validates your point. The lecturer said that climate change had actually brought more rain to the area of Africa he worked in, which benefited the local crops. Migration actually was a problem for the area, as they lacked resources to do the farming. However, migration continues for social reasons; apparently, it is socially prestigious to have a child in Europe.

He completely dismissed the idea of climate migration, saying this was a scare term for Europeans to get them to implement anti-climate change policies lest they be over run by hordes of "climate" migrants from Africa. So in some sense the term is actually racist.

Pay no attention to long-term climate changes tied to historic records for drought, flooding and extreme temperatures.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/18/climate-change-made-india-heatwave-100x-more-likely-uk-met-office.html

See above post - we are fed the same propaganda as Europeans. Makes it easier to condition population to accept lower standards of living and start treating what we took for granted in 1st world - heating/cooling, electricity, personal vehicles, single family homes, airline travel, etc as luxuries that should only be available to the rich like it's the case in the 3rd world. Because the cost of everything is going up, how will you explain to the angry peasants why they can no longer afford comforts they took for granted and have them be happy to sacrifice? Climate change and Putin.

cooling may be a given for the average American but it was actually rare or unheard off in most of Europe until recently because it was not needed. people in the UK do not have AC because they dont need it, having summers with mild temperatures. last summer they had umprecedented heat waves with 40 degree celsius. hard to tolerate something like that when you are used to 27 and have no AC. i grew up in Southern Europe and nobody had AC because it was really hot usually 2-3 weeks a year at most, end of July and beginning of August. in the past two decades we had a number of heat waves with very high temperatures starting in June. glaciers are disappearing on the Alps, drought is affecting agriculture. peasants did not need AC 30 years ago, now they do and their fields are becoming too dry.

Actually, even in America... 20 years ago in the Bay Area, most houses did not have AC. There were only a handful of days that went above 90 in the summer, and temps drop drastically at night, so inside the house it usually didn't have enough time to get too hot. On the very rare occasions it did, we as kids would just go to the library or mall for the few hours of the afternoon. The 107 in September (that happened this year) would have been absolutely unthinkable.