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it is, since 2018 have to comply with "Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard" to rent.

believe they did under Hammond.

yes, because their demand is unrealistic and so they'll be able to protest forever. they make claims about inefficient housing stock, dont provide any evidence. i've looked up domestic energy consumption and found this: we're not different from neighbours in northern europe as a proportion...

that plan, by their own accompanying document, is expected to cost at least £360bn. It would also require a substantial amount of the workforce (half million) dedicated to it. This is not a realistic commitment to make. they should scale back the demands and might get somewhere.

there is existing plan costing £3.6bn that gets the poorly insulated properties upto a decent standard. Insulate Britain want a solution they estimate will cost £19bn year, which will be mostly be spent upgrading already decent insultation.

this is turning into middle class activists vs working class getting on with their day, protest is doing nothing for their cause.

so environmentalists are now pro-nuclear? i do hope so.

well thats about the figure thats publically acknowledged. or 50% since 1990. certainly are other emissions exported. if you want to focus no people shipping in goods from across the world and their air travel, i agree. cant say the problem is ignored and we have done nothing.

the issue hasnt been ignored, the solution has. we've reduced emissions by some 40-odd% in twenty years, more than the rest of the G7. we've shifted to solar and wind despite the shortcomings and that's why we have the current energy issue. sure we could save more consumption from better...

Shirley your incentive was lower future heating bills and the that warm fuzziness of doing a good thing?

except people are criticising the protesters, not talking about what they are going to do to improve their insulation. 10/10 for raising the issue, 0/10 for progressing it.

does that mean we can stop worrying about too much sugar, fat, salt, too little exercise? or is that jumping on the current zeitgeist.

we're currently seeing the flaw in renewables, they're unreliable. if we had enough to meet our energy demands. we need to go nuclear or rollback development.

yep, they want every house retrofitted with upgraded insulation at a cost of at least $360bn, which they look to government to fund. gofund isnt going to cut it.

we are the market. we either have enough insulation, cant afford it or cant fit it. despite government billions spent on installing, often with problems. really its low impact in the global scheme of things.

thinking about it, the protesters would achieve stated aim better if they trained as insulation fitters and volunteered to do work.

trouble with this approach to protesting is that it doesnt have the desired outcome. they want people to say this problem is terrible, do something about it, instead they say the protest is terrible, do something about it. so we'll end up with some new laws on protest management. what needs to...