I think the vast majority of those people would adapt to 25 degrees (with light clothing!) with enough time. Why? Because until recently, air conditioning didn’t exist, yet people all over the world still managed to work through most of the day. Some cultures pause work during the hottest part of the day, but that won’t avoid temperatures over 25 degrees in a great many places where temperatures into the 30s are common. Likewise some people would suffer, but I think if those temperatures were genuinely unpleasant for a large part of the population with the available technology, you would see it.
A big factor in my opinion here though is that I used to think similarly, until I spent a hot summer in a warm flat and am now perfectly comfortable at 29 degrees, given a week or two to adjust up to that point. So given that I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, I find it difficult to believe you now without something more.
I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.
My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.
I think the vast majority of those people would adapt to 25 degrees (with light clothing!) with enough time. Why? Because until recently, air conditioning didn’t exist, yet people all over the world still managed to work through most of the day. Some cultures pause work during the hottest part of the day, but that won’t avoid temperatures over 25 degrees in a great many places where temperatures into the 30s are common. Likewise some people would suffer, but I think if those temperatures were genuinely unpleasant for a large part of the population with the available technology, you would see it.
A big factor in my opinion here though is that I used to think similarly, until I spent a hot summer in a warm flat and am now perfectly comfortable at 29 degrees, given a week or two to adjust up to that point. So given that I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, I find it difficult to believe you now without something more.
I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.
My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.
fair enough