The cooling crisis: How climate change forced air conditioning onto France's agenda

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For a country that's never needed -- and often looked down on -- air conditioning, this has been a summer of reckoning.
As France suffers through successive extreme heatwaves, AC has become a political issue too.

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For a country that's never needed -- and often looked down on -- air conditioning, this has been a summer of reckoning.
As France suffers through successive extreme heatwaves, AC has become a political issue too.

Sources: NPR