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[–] dogslayeggs 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's one thing to have hotels in the city do this for the millions of tourists, but to force this on the highest performing athletes trying to achieve peak performance at the absolute most important competition of their life is kind of shitty. It's a two week event for about 11,000 people. I'm pretty sure the AC from that doesn't put a dent on the AC from the rest of the tourists from the event or the tourists throughout the year in freaking Paris.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

The emissions from ACs for 2 weeks likely isn't close to the emissions from all the construction they did just to host . The whole thing is ridiculous. The corrupt IOC officials watching from box seats and staying in 5 star hotels are all going to have AC.