Building houses to the current standards adds environmental damage

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year in 2021. A year later, the UK had record-breaking temperatures, fires and drought, before the school summer holidays.

Globally, the extraordinary weather events are a catalogue of deadly proportions and, from a Sky News article, something like a wake-up call close to an environmental armageddon.

Building houses to the current standards (with a few exceptions) just add to the problem of environmental damage (Buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emission). Its use of resources and energy needs to be addressed. But, additionally, there is a need for restoring and maintaining older properties with similar demands.

Global warming has an evil twin: Climate Change.

Climate Change sets the backdrop to all that has to be done to solve the housing crisis.

It also offers a background briefing for my book Climate Change House

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