Stop EU heatwave death tolls on the cheap just install portable a/c units in every apartment for people over 55. Or build those big ice making units and allow the elderly to buy bags of ice on the dole and put the bags into bath tubs so they can bathe in cold water to cool off. Cheaper yet is swimming pools with cooling units. BUT BUT that would mean the "health care professionals" would be frozen out of jobs, money, and stuff like that. REAL problem with installing a/c? Electricity use would soar, the French don't have enough power, power lines, or the capital to invest in same. Chances are this heat wave is a 100 year event and won't repeat. If this is a climate change, meaning climate is reverting to the middle ages, then EU will have to go to a/c. For the longest history of warming and cooling trends on the planet go HERE. You'll learn stuff like the Mayans starved to death (no dirty white EU shitheads around to kill them off so the PC crowd doesn't want you to know), just how warm Iceland and Greenland was at one time (the Vikings didn't call it Greenland because it had green ice), and the Romans and Vikings thought of England as "The Sunshine State".