Air conditioning creates political divide after France records hottest day
France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about air-conditioning as temperatures soar.
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""There are places where we just can't do without it now.""
— Marie Tondelier , Politician
""The state operates under an anti-clim ideology. But air-conditioning has got to be brought into the picture, along with other methods for creating cool.""
— Valerie Pécresse , Politician
Key People
Head of the Ecologists party in France.
Marine Le Pen is the leader of the National Rally party.
Representative of the CGT union.
Conservative president of the Paris regional council.
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France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about air-conditioning as temperatures soar.
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