@johannes_lehmann @Ruth_Mottram

My house in Cambridge was built with walls two bricks wide, in a two parallel, one across pattern. No cavity, and no insulation. Had coal-burning fireplaces at every room (unused but leaking cold air) and radiators heated form a gas furnace. Energy rating E.

We added 10 cm of a dense modern material to the walls, mostly wood pulp as far as I know, and changed the windows to double or triple glass panel. And replaced the heating with an air-source heat pump. Energy rating A+.

This should be done for easily more than half of all homes in the UK.
https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20221008_insulation.html

If, around 1900, all the effort, money, and thought that went into mining and transporting all that coal had gone into building houses with cavity walls and thicker windows, all of this mess would have been averted. Alas, a few fat cats wouldn't have become rich. Tragic. Time for the rich to pay it back.

@Ruth_Mottram

"Homes in England had a median Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) score of 68 and homes in Wales had a median EPC score of 67, according to records from the 10 years up to March 2024; both scores are in band D."

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/energyefficiencyofhousinginenglandandwales/2024

The UK government is so broke, or short-sighted, or both, that it's only considering a policy of bringing houses up to band C:

"This chapter discusses findings on energy efficiency ratings and heating systems and how this differs by tenure. It then goes on to discuss insulation measures in dwellings, smart meters by tenure and subjective overheating, then finishes with the average cost of improving dwellings to an energy efficiency rating band C."

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/chapters-for-english-housing-survey-2023-to-2024-headline-findings-on-housing-quality-and-energy-efficiency/chapter-2-energy-efficiency

Bear in mind that any house with an insulation less than in the A band is going to pay a lot in heating and cooling. A lot. It's like a tax on the poor, or a punishment: to endure cold winters and hot summers.

@AbramKedge @tompearce49
At a similar time with not wildly different perceptions.

Houses to be fair are a lot better now, as they needed to be #insulateBritain and therefore absolutely more expensive to build or to have been brought up to standard, but not in the observed ratio.

Thatcher et al stealing the council housing and preventing replacement was a huge bad thing.

@fulelo But it's really important to prosecute all these non violent climate protesters!

#JustStopOil
#InsulateBritain
#ExtinctionRebellion

@therightarticle

The silence from mainstream media is deafening.

Why has only the Canary and Yahoo News covered this?

#InsulateBritain
#RightToProtest
#ClimateEmergency

@luckytran
Protesters are NEVER the problem
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#ClimateEmergency
#extinctionrebellion
#juststopoil
#InsulateBritain
#greenenergytransition
#windpowergeneration
#solarenergy
#tidalpower
#Hydropower
@ExtinctionR
@greenparty
@JustStopOil
Every action you take makes a difference
Drive less
fly never
eat local & vegetarian
Eat less meat
use renewables where poss & affordable
Save water
Reuse, fix, recycle
Insulate, insulate, insulate!
Have a wildlife friendly garden w pond

@ProjectFearlessness ...and this is why we're jailing climate activists at every opportunity.

#JustStopOil
#InsulateBritain
#ExtinctionRebellion

@Silversnapples As far as I'm concerned, all of the #InsulateBritain, #ExtinctionRebellion, and #JustStopOil heroes are heroes. They're putting their freedom on the line to try to protect all of our homes and all of our lives -- which is precisely why they're being so relentlessly persecuted by those who want to burn the world.