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UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Italy never had air conditioning in schools, LOL!
They have buildings and infrastructure designed with the weather in mind though, with generations of knowledge used to make it suitable before AC was a thing, for instance external blinds everywhere, orientation of the building to the sun/winds. Our schools were built to retain heat as much as possible
What you say is partly true, but Italian summers are still way too hot. But our only option was to suffer it.
Genuinely interested: do you have external shutters or awnings on buildings like schools in Italy? I have to pay £500 to a council planning department to get them approved to be installed. (Which is utterly ridiculous)
What about internal shutters?
Sure but they don't work as-well because the energy has already penetrated the glass and now needs to traverse the glass again to escape, better than nothing but not as good as external shutters
Sometimes shutters, sometimes Venetian blinds.
And they’re now on Round 2 of Fascism. Maybe their brains fried in the classrooms.
So many people here in the UK can't manage 3 days of somewhat unpleasant heat.
Sure, I would like to cool my house down a bit when it's hot. But no I don't want to spend any real amount of money on it.
That's probably because you're not in a care home or of schools age (I'm assuming?) kids and people in care are much more suspectable to things like heatstroke. Glad to hear you're not struggling.