One of my more conspiracist opinions is that desiring alternatives to degrowth to be unthinkable was part of the driving force for/tolerating closing nuclear power plants even before coal ones and that this did enormous damage to public perception of fighting climate change.
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More people in Europe die of heat than Americans die of gunshot wounds. This isn't to excuse American gun culture.
However, this underscores how much the "AC is just a needless power-sucking luxury" mentality is killing a lot of people.