My impression is that the discussion on air conditioning isn’t very nuanced and goes either „everyone who has doubts on air conditioning is ableist“ or „air conditioning kills the planet“. So of course I want to add my take on it, constructive discussion encouraged if you want to add something or want to disagree.

I fully support air conditioning in public buildings, for private homes I’m a bit doubtful if large scale airconditioning makes sense or if it wouldn’t be better to invest more in making buildings and cities more heat resistant with measures like more shade and trees, less asphalt, public fountains, adapted working hours, etc etc. So more collective measures rather than individual measures. Of course everyone who needs air conditioning because of increased heat sensitivity or for whom public places to cool down aren’t easily and readily accessible should have air conditioning. And like, couldn’t air conditioning run on local solar panels? Without even connecting it to the grid? I mean there’s of course still the issue of it warming up cities even more if used large scale but there’s lots of other things that heat up cities far more (like cars) we should take care of first imo.