Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.
Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn’t doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.
We’ll need more A/C. But it is a temporary emergency measure, not a solution that adresses the cause.
A/C is how Americans are able to insulate themselves into denial of climate change.