Europeans are not against A/C. They are just against "just putting A/C" as the easy solution for not trying to fix climate change.

Also the 6% CO2 emissions only include national emissions. A part of what China emits is due to what we consume in the western world. In other words, the 6% emissions don't include the emissions of all the iPhone purchased by Europeans.

> So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its way back to The Good Times.

Ah, MEGA thinking… now, as we’ve now, eventually, learned (often to our collective horror) to do with the MAGA-thinking folk, can the author please specify exactly what years were “The Good Times”?