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Air-conditioning cannot stop the giant migration to come
Humans are being pushed out of our temperature comfort zone
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For many, owning an air conditioner has already become a matter of survival rather than comfort.
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Lara Williams
It’s a good time to be in the air-conditioning business.
As my colleagues at Bloomberg News write, an additional one billion cooling units are expected to be installed by the end of the decade. It is one of the main ways in which humans are adapting to more frequent and intense heatwaves.
