Environmental Regulations Are Baking Europeans to Death(reason.com)

Environmental Regulations Are Baking Europeans to Death

https://reason.com/2025/07/03/environmental-regulations-are-literally-baking-europeans-to-death/

5 comments

There are no regulations that hinder me to buy any AC I like.

I bought a mobile AC, like a lot of smaller shops in the cities do it.

I just looked that it has a high EER and COP to do myself a favour (smaller bill, and more silent when not needed on max.)

I'm right in the middle of the EU. I didn't have to pay any extra taxes, so I don't know what that article is talking about.

rsynnott10 mesi fa

I mean it's a magazine published by a libertarian think tank. It is basically the magazine incarnation of a weird internet libertarian; not sure why you'd expect it to make any sense.

hecturchi10 mesi fa

> The American-European disparity along this latter dimension could hardly be greater: nearly 90 percent of U.S. households have air conditioning, whereas less than 10 percent of European homes do. The productivity gap between the U.S. and Europe helps explain this disparity.

Yeah, it must be that since US and EU are identical otherwise.

ZeroGravitas10 mesi fa

I can't believe the cheek of oil industry propagandists using the deaths of people in climate change worsened wildfires as an excuse to further attack government oversight.

ciconia10 mesi fa

AC doesn't make heat disappear. It just displaces it, removing it from the interior and effectively warming the exterior (plus heat emitted by the AC mechanism itself). So AC can't solve global warming, it actually heats the exterior, making global warming worse. Just saying...