Guest post by Jonathan Gallant
Students of geography and climate have long known that the climate of western Europe is more temperate, on the whole, than the climate of Africa. Urban centers of government, finance, education, and culture in western Europe, such as London, Edinburgh, Paris, Amsterdam, and Geneva, are rarely as hot, and never hot for as long, as cities in Africa. This clearly has disparate impact on the inhabitants of cities in the two regions, in regard to health, activity, moods, ease of sleep, and so on. Worse still, public knowledge of these temperature differences could tend to marginalize those who are subject to systems of temperature oppression.
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