Experts urge caution as demand grows for AC in UK
Londoner Zainab Hussain once saw air conditioning as a luxury in Britain. Now, the 35-year-old "can't see how we'll survive without it."
She and her husband are among a small but growing proportion of British households embracing AC to deal with increasingly hot summers.
But the trend has attracted criticizm, particularly from sustainability experts who argue it should not be the "default answer."
"It's seen as a quick fix and it's not actually, because it can cause a lot of damage," Rajat Gupta, professor of sustainable architecture and climate change at Oxford Brookes University, told AFP.
