Yes!

I think work from home and also the adoption of the 4 day work week will be critical to tackling the climate crisis

All of the climate reports for the uk suggest we will need air conditioning 10 times more and our heating will be needed less. So the future should absolutely be in air conditioning and two way heat pump systems

We should probably stop subdising fossil fuel companies so much by this arguement. I’d rather my tax pounds went to subsidising heat pumps than fossil fuels.

The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal.

From 2020 to 2021 they received an extra £1bn support from the government compared with 2020, a 10.7% increase. For renewable energy in the same year, total support for projects increased by just £1m, or 0.01%.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015

The most frustrating thing with heat pumps is how little help the government are providing. They will cost a fortune to the consumer, especially in houses that need existing heating systems altered to be compatible.

We need better grants and funding. Way better.

Hard to know what to say to these stories anymore. But one idea is:

One thing you can do is write to your MP or representative.
Here is a letter template to write to your MP if you are in the uk - you could also use the template in the US or elsewhere in the world : https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/write-to-your-mp

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Seems like the reasoning they are going with. Really we need to make it somehow more profitable to do the right/climate focused things.

Exxon produces less than 3% of the world’s daily crude demand and in May its shareholders overwhelmingly rejected calls for stronger measures to mitigate climate change.

Well yes, I wonder if they had a plan beyond the statement.

It’s true, but also quite damning of our whole political system. I just think we’re well past the point of party politics with this issue, it all needs putting aside and we need to see real change.

I have the same large Dutch oven and we use that and a cast iron pan for basically everything. I envy your le creuset collection we barely have space for the Dutch oven!

Nooo, can we just actually put someone useful in the position and see how that will help and improve things?

And then you can’t get back to sleep after…

Well it always is down to something like that, but how depressing. I always think, just how much money do you need?

Also if you are a great business person, why not diversify in what clearly needs to be future tech and infrastructure?

Fincher, Fassenbender, Tilda Swinton and Trent Reznor on the soundtrack. How could this be a no?

This just keeps getting better and better!

Why are we still pushing for coal mines? I would have thought australia would be ideal for solar in certain places.

I think keeping it in people’s minds is useful. Otherwise it’s easy to get wrapped up in your day to day life. I’ve found that climate stories are often under reported here or categorised as another issue.

It does seem to have ramped up in the last few months especially. On a local level we are really struggling to grow food (in our gardens) due to such bizarre weather and that is a tiny example of the effect.