In the cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation, do you think French bureaucrats are saying to themselves, "Well, that's a few thousand pensioners that we no longer have to pay"? It's as good an explanation as any for the lack of action. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/09/16/french-health-authority-reports-almost-8-000-excess-deaths-over-heatwave-struck-summer_6757604_7.html?srsltid=AU7gw4Uevi6-ViaL2A-eoT-Gxl86GGQYNv4ruFLV3JwfO-LrqnskyaGd