Kirstie Allsopp sparks outrage by calling for air con to be banned despite heatwave

express.co.uk:

Kirstie Allsopp, 50, caused controversy by criticising cooling systems at a time when the thermostat was soaring to almost 40C in some parts of Britain.

As the UK received its first ever red alert heat warning and the Met Office warned that even healthy people could face serious illness or worse, a spot of air conditioning would have been appreciated by many.However Kirstie was adamant that Britain should "never again" be allowed to build homes that couldn't be lived in comfortably without resorting to air-con."For thousands of years we were able to build cool buildings in hot places," the property show presenter argued in view of her 428,700 Twitter followers."Air Conditioning led us into the Dark Ages, never again should we be allowed to build homes or offices that can’t be cooled by airflow & shade."Her comments left many irate - especially those who had lived in countries where scorching heatwaves were the norm.@Mo_Hafez11 raged: "I hope you stay for 1 month in Arizona or Arabian desert without AC, then lecture us about the redundancy of AC and the genius of cooling old architecture without AC's."@Anne12369700 hit back, insisting: "But that’s K’s point.