We cannot ignore Climate Change it is bigger than all-out war.
In 2022, the house had to protect us from heatwaves and droughts, wildfires, torrential rain and flooding. But our housing was just not up to the mark. It did not protect people from the record 40.3-degree day and stifling nights lasting for weeks on end. And then we saw television pictures of homes destroyed by fire and flood.
We knew it was going to happen and we know that in the next few years such summers will happen progressively more often and more ferociously.
Are we prepared? Is there an overarching coherent policy shaped by the government to mitigate such deadly events? Will the existing housing stock be renovated fast enough? Will the desperately needed new housing be able to face up to the next 30 years of global warming? Can they be built fast enough and at affordable prices?
At the same time, housing estates are being bolted on to unwilling communities. Houses are, even now, constructed with huge CO2 emissions and designed for a lifetime of global warming gasses spewed into the air decade after decade. Flats are given planning permission without even a place to store a bike or charge an EV car.
This book takes a deeply researched look at such issues and spreads them out before us. It then goes much further. It examines existing and new technologies that can be deployed to build new properties and regenerate existing homes to make life tolerable for this and next generations.
Comprehensive and often prescient this is a manifesto in mitigation of climate change and, as if by magic, it will not cost the Exchequer a penny!
The book is published today and is available from Amazon and all good book shops.
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