On a sun-baked(烈日曝晒的) morning in early July, with temperatures set to soar above 40°C (104°F), a mob in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, heaved(用力推) against the doors of a Lidl supermarket until they collapsed. The sweat-stained hooligans were desperate shoppers, pitted against each other for the last portable air-conditioning (AC) unit. In another Lidl across town two men came to blows(动手打起来). French politicians had a row(争吵) of their own, over how much AC was too much.
七月初一个烈日炙烤的早晨，气温即将飙升至40°C以上，巴黎郊区南泰尔的一群暴民猛推利多超市的大门，直到门倒塌。这些汗流浃背的暴徒是绝望的购物者，为了最后一台便携式空调而互相争斗。在城另一头的另一家利多超市，两名男子大打出手。法国政客们也吵了起来，争论多少空调才算太多。
At about the same time in cities across Pakistan and Bangladesh, protesters blocked roads and surrounded electricity offices during weeks of power cuts in temperatures as hot as 45°C. In Chandpur, Bangladesh, in late June residents allegedly(据称) assaulted(袭击) an employee of the Rural Electrification Board. In May power cuts during a heatwave in India led to similar protests in some rural villages, where residents complained they could not even run fans at night. In places like Iraq and Sri Lanka, too, unrest(骚乱) has broken out over shortages of energy needed to keep cool.
大约在同一时间，巴基斯坦和孟加拉国的多个城市，抗议者封锁道路并包围电力办公室，当时正值数周停电，气温高达45°C。在孟加拉国的钱德普尔，六月底居民据称袭击了农村电气化委员会的一名员工。五月，印度热浪期间的停电在一些农村引发了类似抗议，居民抱怨晚上连风扇都开不了。在伊拉克和斯里兰卡等地，也因保持凉爽所需的能源短缺而爆发了骚乱。
As extreme heat breaks tempers and electricity grids, fights over AC—or the energy that powers cooling tech—are threatening to break politics.(随着极端高温破坏情绪和电网，围绕空调的争斗正威胁政治。) It is a decidedly(无疑地) modern problem: AC hardly existed even in America before 1960; now climate change has made it a near-absolute must(近乎绝对的必需品) in much of the world. In November the COP30(第30届联合国气候变化大会) climate summit, held in Belém, Brazil, declared cooling technologies like air-conditioning to be “essential infrastructure” like water, energy and sanitation.
随着极端高温破坏人们的情绪和电网，围绕空调（或为冷却技术提供动力的能源）的争斗正威胁着政治格局。这无疑是一个现代问题：1960年之前，即使在美国也几乎不存在空调；如今气候变化已使其在世界大部分地区成为近乎绝对的必需品。去年11月，在巴西贝伦举行的COP30气候峰会将空调等冷却技术宣布为与供水、能源和卫生设施并列的“关键基础设施”。
Grid-blocked
电网受阻