Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.
Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn't doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.
Air conditioners remove heat in one place, at the expense of creating more heat somewhere else. And it's environmentally even worse if their energy source consumes fossil fuels.