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Rep. Lisa McClain: "For the people in our country who want to turn this country into a communist country -- leave. Go to Europe where they are experiencing this heat wave and they don't have air conditioning. See how well that works for you. I'm proud to be an American."

It also saves lives. The risk is much smaller than the benefit.

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The risk could be much smaller if people would agree to stop treating climate change like Santa Claus and make reasonable changes. My argument was that people who don't have AC aren't suffering because they acted on climate change, they're suffering because of the people who don't believe in science

Europe has been without AC forever. For that reason (and many others), they contribute less to global warming than we do. I would not deny them the comfort of AC, but I recognize that it might be problematic for all of Europe to acquire AC in time for this summer.

Framing it as a matter of comfort is missing the point. People are dying. Even a few communal cooling areas equipped with A/C could help with that.