It’s summer again.

In America, that means people turn on air conditioners while in Europe, they die of the heat, which is considered a good thing because they’re generally old white people and air conditioning is ‘bad for the environment’.

France racked up 1,000 heat deaths so far. And 40 drowning deaths because cooling down in France means going swimming, not turning on air conditioners.

But people have to die to save the planet.

Europe has pledged to become “climate neutral” by 2050 and a sharp increase in air conditioners will make climate commitments even harder to reach. Not only are air conditioners energy guzzlers, but they also push heat outside.

Marine Le Pen is calling for a national rollout of air conditioning in France while the head of UN’s WHO is just telling everyone to prepare to die.

“More than 1300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to high temperatures in Europe,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.

“Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling,” he wrote.

“Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the ‘once-in-a-generation’ heatwave is now occurring nearly annual. We were warned.”

Heat waves have been around for a while and they were killing people for a while. These same kinds of death tolls were popping up in France a generation ago.

I’ve been writing about the annual human sacrifices to the environment for a while now.

A 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in France and killed 70,000 people in Europe. That’s more than Islamic terrorists have.

In 2007, only 2% of Indian households had air conditioning. Those numbers have more than doubled. India is expected to field a billion air conditioning units by 2050.

When a heat wave consumed Europe in 1540, leading to the hottest temperatures on record and the deaths of thousands, the people blamed a higher power. In England, where the River Trent dried up, the megadrought was blamed on Henry VIII’s sacrilegious crackdown on monasteries. Modern Europeans have a simple, rational explanation. Mother Earth is angry because we’re using air conditioners.

And so people have to keep dying until they replace their cooling systems or their governments.