Excessive heat and reliance on air-conditioning, on the one hand, is detrimental to efforts to conserve energy and reduce of carbon emissions, and thus forms a vicious circle with global warming; it may also lead to systems failures in different areas, threatening urban lifestyles, and even life and property.
高溫炎熱除了依賴冷氣而不利節能減碳、與暖化形成惡性循環外，另一方面也可能導致各方面的「系統失靈」，對都市生活甚至生命財產造成威脅。