The Cooling Trap: How Asia's Air Conditioners Are Making Heatwaves Worse Asia's air conditioners have become a double edged sword, bringing temporary respite from scorching temperatures but threatening to collapse power grids when they're needed most.
The irony is striking: our quest for cooling has unwittingly created a vicious cycle of heat induced chaos.
In South Korea, the death toll in August was 19 lives lost, with many more at risk as the mercury continues to rise.