It's the climate, stupid

By Jack Pringle2019-05-01T05:00:00

While we’re belatedly panicking over carbon emissions, let’s remember it’s not just about new construction – there’s a lot of refurb work to do

The perfect storm (pun intended) hit the UK this Easter, as record temperatures coincided with David Attenborough’s television programme Climate Change: the Facts, Extinction Rebellion’s takeover of London and Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg’s extraordinary initiative and eloquence. This must have given anyone with any sensibility pause for thought.

If the tipping point is reached and passed in 10 years’ time, will we be embarrassed by a similar question to that posed by Savile Lumley’s fictionalised children to their father in his famous First World War poster: “What did you do in the Great (Climate Change) War, Daddy?” – or Mummy, indeed. The answer might be “not enough”, or “too little, too late”.

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