Or, redesign houses to not need nearly as much energy for heating and cooling, preferring natural heating via the sun and cooling via breeze. https://www.codylundin.com/codys_house.html
The building I live in in London was built in the mid 1800’s there are many others like it, Edwardian buildings aren’t much better not to mention the 50’s - 70’s council built blocks.
Rebuilding buildings would also have a major carbon footprint not to mention cost.
of course, this may never happen, since it'd be perceived by the establishment as political suicide - but they don't care, since they won't live long enough to witness the real suicide, which happens slowly, then all at once (when it's too late).
This makes many assumption that do not fit very large parts of the inhabited earth.
What's happened to sympathy/empathy these days?
And, since you can't warm "by breeze", you now have the worlds population squished into two very small bands around the earth.
Here's a neat "population vs latitude" graph: https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/