See, Paris really, really, really wants the Olympics with the lowest carbon footprint (except for the hundreds and hundreds of fossil fueled jets, all the FF vehicles), so, they cut the AC at the venues and dorms. They’re expecting about 300K to attend, not including the athletes, trainers, etc. About that
Paris wanted an AC-free Olympics. Visiting nations had other plans.
For all the steps Paris organizers have taken to put on the greenest Olympics ever, their boldest measure – the one they’ve touted again and again – pertains to the dorms in the Athletes’ Village. The rooms don’t have air-conditioning. Because of other cooling measures, organizers have assured, the athletes won’t need it.
But in a farcical turn, when the Games start next month, an Olympic Village designed to showcase sustainability will be more of an energy hog than organizers had hoped.
That’s because portable air-conditioning units will be everywhere. Wheeled in. Shipped in. Ordered by visiting countries that want their athletes to sleep well and perform at the highest level – even if it means a larger carbon footprint.
Worried about what potentially could be the world’s hottest year on record, wealthier nations have effectively undercut Paris’s marquee sustainability measure, signaling that, yes, they care about environmental aims – but not if it risks the comfort of their athletes. Some of those athletes are accustomed to temperatures cooler than what the dorms might have provided and raised concerns to their national Olympic committees.
Bleating about the need to Do Something is all fun and games right up till it’s the Warmists themselves who are forced to Do Something, eh?
“We will bring them. And we will take them back to Greece,” said Alexandra Palli, president of the Greek Olympic committee for environmental sustainability, who said her country was responding to the wishes of its athletes. “They need support. Because what they do is very difficult anyway.”
There’s always some reason why Warmists do not have to walk the talk.
And then there’s the matter what athletes are accustomed to.
“Temperature control is a big thing,” said Kat Holmes, a fencer from Washington, D.C. “I like it really cold when I sleep.”
More precisely, she likes the temperature set at 69 degrees. (snip)
“I am very pro-environment,” she said. “But the point of this is to bring together the world’s best athletes to perform the best they can.”
The perfect allegory: the world needs to do something, as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me.
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