Mark Landler
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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And I think that political leaders are, in fact, hoping to seize this moment to do that, to perhaps turn the debate around a little bit.
You saw that in Spain with the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has declared what he calls a climate emergency.
You know, I think you'll hear more voices like that in the coming days and weeks.
But while this great debate plays out,
People need solutions now.
They can't wait for three, four years.
They need to learn how to live with and cope with this heat in the short run.
So what you're hearing a lot about in Europe these days is adaptation.
How do you adapt cultures and countries and societies to hotter climates?
And so clearly one of the easiest remedies is air conditioning.
And that's not to say that there's no air conditioning in France.
There's plenty of air conditioning, particularly in the southern part of the country.
But as a general principle, France has moved more slowly and more reluctantly toward the widespread use of air conditioning, particularly in homes.
And I think what's happening now, and you're seeing it play out politically, culturally, is also a kind of a reckoning, a recognition here,
that perhaps the French are going to have to get over this.
They're going to have to simply accept that widespread home air conditioning is going to be a reality in this country, just as it is in large parts of Spain, just as it is in Dubai, just as it is in the United States.
And I think, based on my own reporting, that France will get there another couple of summers like this, and it may get there sooner than we might expect.
I think that for the moment at least, Europe is caught in a situation where it's going to be thinking much more short term about how do you cope with the next month, two months, and then let's address that epic issue of can we get back to some really ambitious net zero targets.
Marine Le Pen's party presents a very classic populist agenda with a major emphasis on cutting back immigration and a real assertion of France's national sovereignty.
And this has proven to be a very effective pitch to voters in France.
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