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Depressing reading. Jevons paradox again!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/01/rebound-effect-cancels-out-home-insulations-impact-on-gas-use-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you fit insulation you expect comfort, I guess. Folks just up their thermostats by a degree or two rather than putting on an extra jumper.

If you insulate for comfort/ have £ the spend, I guess this makes sense.

If it's for environmental reasons / you need the £ for other necessities, it's the jumper.

Different users, different motivation, but that's not easy to work with usually as then you need maybe several government policies and targeted campaigns?

People who can barely keep their house warm enough to be livable surely aren’t building extensions and conservatories.

did anyone say they were?

Maybe people are building extensions because there aren’t enough houses being built, and the increased energy consumption is a correlation of population growth, rather than insulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/02/suspect-identified-in-only-one-in-10-bicycle-theft-cases-in-england-and-wales

(sorry for posting a link to the Gruniad)

Yes. Probably. And that the large part of new houses and flats are more densely built and smaller.

The average house size is still decreasing, despite all the extensions https://www.labc.co.uk/news/what-average-house-size-uk

When do we start writing strongly worded letters to our MP's about A&E delays killing 500 a week?

letters

Steady on, emails surely.

Tik-Tok surely?

Horrible:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/03/mark-cavendish-and-wife-hid-son-as-robbers-threatened-them-court-hears

That’s horrible for a kid to live through.

And equally an adult!

equally

Not really

That’s horrible for a kid to live through.

Yeah, those watches are dreadful.

Ha! 😝

That’s horrible for a kid to live through.

Yeah, those watches are dreadful.

As if being brought up in Ongar wasn't enough!

If they’re worth £3-400k, surely they must be really, really good.

Just noted that the very first post in this thread - 14 years ago - concerns Cav!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-64165953

insane core

Foxes are nails. One of the foxes that sleep on our garage roof broke a leg a few years ago. The leg has withered away but the fox is in very good health and perfectly fine with it tucked away and getting about on three legs. Pretty sure she'd have been a goner if she was a rural fox though.

Definitely nails. But don't they look after their injured and disabled family members though? Or is that just wolves?