“Instead of ‘going public’, you could say we’re ‘going purpose’,” said Chouinard. “Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.”
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This story made me think about all the condemnations of other countries that take political prisoners (except of course those like Israel and Saudi Arabia, that are seen as allies and therefore above criticism - even though they are among the worst offenders).
In Britain ‘there are now 54 Just Stop Oil protesters in prison and since April’. It has become a country that imprisons its best and bravest.
No serious analysis has hydrogen playing more than a marginal role in the future of space heating. We need to get Europe’s heating systems off natural gas, and we need to do it without further delay. It’s time to stop the fight: the judges are unanimous and the winners are district heating, heat pumps and electrification
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Greta again…
On climate justice:
3 billion people use less energy, on an annual per capita basis, than a standard American refrigerator
And on system change:
According to the United Nations’ emissions gap report, the world’s planned fossil fuel production by the year 2030 will be more than twice the amount that would be consistent with keeping to the 1.5c target. This is science’s way of telling us that we can no longer reach our targets without a system change. because meeting our targets would literally require tearing up contracts, valid deals and agreements on an unimaginable scale. This should, of course, be dominating every hour of our everyday news feed, every political discussion, every business meeting and every inch of our daily lives. But that is not what is happening.
The Sunday Times is wading into the fray today.
I note the final paragraph:
“France, meanwhile, is launching a major publicity campaign tomorrow, entitled Every Gesture Counts, with tips to cut energy and urging people to wear pullovers to keep warm. President Macron has led the way by appearing in a turtle neck sweater with several ministers following suit. “Not enough heating? Let them wear cashmere!” mocked Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally.”
I’ll get my indoor coat
Could be worse. The Sunday Times article also says:
“Italians will be barred by law from turning up their heating to more than 19C and those living in the warmer south will not be allowed to switch on their radiators until December. Those further north can do so earlier. It is not clear how seriously the new rules, announced last week, will be enforced.”
Yikes! My husband, who is the Times reader in our house has told me to pretend we’re in Tuscany.
I’ll need a warmer coat
Is it a myth or is there really a gender aspect to what temperature folks find comfortable?
It does seem to be stereotypically ‘Dads’ that insist on turning down the thermostat…
I don’t see what’s wrong with a house at 17° or 18° it’s a summer day in Scotland after all. Just wear a jersey.
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It’s interesting though how you acclimatise as an immigrant. When we first moved here (from Northumberland, near the Scottish border) my kids were notorious in school for hardly ever wearing coats, etc. We had a family saying: over 20 degrees is ‘officially a hot day’ - we’d automatically go to the beach etc if we could. But over the years we’ve changed - don’t think of swimming in the sea on a 20 degree day now (even though the water here is always far warmer than the North Sea).
Today I bought an alpaca cardi from Peruvian Enrique in the market. My new indoor woolie
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In the 1980s we ran a small chain of ‘green’ shops. Lines included a selection of relevant badges, one of which featured a woman wearing a wooly hat and scarf and the slogan ‘SAVE ENERGY - WRAP UP WARM’. 40 years ago !
As the daughter / granddaughter xxxxx times of Aussie sheep farmers (one side of my family came over with their sheep from Kent in the 1830s, with a 6 month stop in South Africa to fatten them back up) I’m a huge fan of woollen garb to keep warm. However embarrassed (as also terrible for micro plastics in the wash) to say my fave winter around the house is a very fluffy (think teddy bear) fleece. I originally got a white one for tennis last winter (we were still playing in -3c one evening last winter). I then kept wearing it in the house before lighting the woodburner so quickly went and got a lovely deep pink / purple one as well. Makes being a bit chilly go away!
Yet another u-turn…
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Swings and roundabouts
Russia is to blame as countries, UK included, return to coal
I’m enjoying the sun and looking forward to catching up on my washing this week. However there us part of me thinking ‘oh s%£#’ this is so not normal’. I’ve lived in France almost 20 years and while, yes, there have been an odd warm (low 20s) few days / a week I honestly don’t remember ever seeing this sustained, into high 20s, this late in the year. Normally we are heating, at least at night from 6/10 (hubbies b’day), this year I think we’ve had 3 little evening fires, and regretted one of them 
. I presume this will be the new normal!!!
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This may be just the start.
Our weather has always been very variable - our wedding anniversary is at the start of October and we used to go away for the weekend. Sometimes we could have lunch sat outside wearing Tee shirts and sometimes there would be a hard frost lasting all day, although we’ve not had frost like that for 10 years now. However last week we still had 2 hard frosts and have needed the heating on low since mid September, running the stove in the living room a few times to supplement during the evening.
Same here - we’ve still had no heating on during the day, just occasional fires some evenings.
I have to go down to Nantes this afternoon and just looked at the forecast - 26 degrees - 27 on Wednesday!
Important statement by Aileen Getty, a funder of climate activism, on the recent ‘soup’ protest:
Some have chosen to criticize the young activists. That criticism only makes it clearer how a person could take such a desperate step to get the world’s attention. Generations before them have destroyed a livable climate and now are telling them that how they are trying to save it is wrong. Older generations are judging and blaming them and yet have stolen their futures. Instead of criticizing young activists for trying to wake us up to the reality of our planet’s climate crisis, we should ask ourselves how to be better partners to those who are inheriting our wreckage.
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Bless!
When these young people stop buying fast fashion and replacing their smartphones every couple of years and get involved in real politics rather than mere posturing and sloganeering, they might be seen as serious. There are few things more impressive - or likely to effect real change - than a youngster joining a political party and arguing for a policy.
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You’re accusing ‘these young people’ unjustly - I know first hand that young climate activists are a long, long way from your stereotype of young people ‘buying fast fashion’, etc. Of course there are empty-headed, conservative people of all ages - climate activists are just the opposite of this.
As to joining political parties and arguing for policies - where have you been exactly? This is precisely what they have been doing for many years! The question is: Why weren’t you listening?
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