Most know this
Some don’t.
In the winter, things get cold. What’s new?
In my old days, all we USA people did was put on more clothes, sleep closer together under heavier blankets, and just keep warm. A lot of people just do this now, but too many more do not do it now. They just turn up their thermostat, and live the way they want to live. Of course in this situation, somebody has to pay for the energy to heat the home with a thermostat, and so many more Americans have to work to deliver this energy. And they do a bang up job, I think. Consider how demand for energy goes up and down based on the winter weather, and it seems we can always be warm. All we have to do is turn up the thermostat, and the energy is there.
Now we Americans are not stupid. For example, when one built homes for their families in the 1880’s and later, the ceiling height was often 10 to 14 feet. This was to allow the summer heat to be above where we lived, as in below. Considering there was no electricity for most back then, this was a pretty good idea, I think. Anyway, just use a step ladder today in a room with a ceiling like 12 feet, and you will know what I mean. There is a “thermal” line that one crosses, and it is very hot above it.
Last, just overseas I know that the rest of our humanity also has to deal with their winter. In my old case in Korea near the DMZ, I lived in a canvas tent with a dirt floor where it never got above freezing for 30 days. And here I am posting decades after the experience about being cold, and alive. And they do OK, too.