Europe isn’t built for the heat

Paris used to be a cool 70 degrees in summer. Now it’s often 95 and climbing —with no A/C to help. Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Europe is warming at twice the rate of other continents due to global warming, what this means for people suffering – even dying – in these heat waves, and why air conditioning can’t be the ultimate answer. His article “The End of the European Summer” was published in The New Yorker. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices