The cooling divide: how air conditioning is creating a new climate inequality

According to research from the University of Reading, air conditioning remains a luxury reserved for the wealthy in Britain. Only four percent of UK homes are equipped with air conditioning, and those few are predominantly found in wealthier households. As climate change brings increasingly hot summers, this growing divide in access to cooling highlights a new form of climate inequality—where the poorest communities face heat exposure without the means to adapt.

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