Lara Williams, Columnist

Air Conditioning Can't Stop Climate Migration

Humans are being pushed out of our temperature comfort zone.

May 23, 2023 at 6:26 AM UTC

By Lara Williams

Lara Williams is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change.

Air-conditioners and air-coolers displayed for sale at a store in New Delhi, India.
Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

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It’s a good time to be in the air-conditioning business.

As my colleagues at Bloomberg News write, an additional 1 billion cooling units are expected to be installed by the end of the decade. It’s one of the main ways in which humans are adapting to more frequent and intense heatwaves.