Small to medium-sized homes for first-time buyers and to rent, which are all extremely well-insulated, need to be built in our town centres. And, get them to live above shops, stores or, in shop units that are no longer shops.
My answer to transport and to hold off looming extinction is.
- Extend our own (senior) age group fare-free public transport to all age groups.
- Paid for by abandoning Metro tram extensions and HS2.
- Replace diesel buses with electric buses going directly onto the roads and not "bus on rails" trams on rails on roads.
- Put passenger trains back on freight only and our mothballed Black Country Railway that is only half used - at the Derby and Worcester ends, only!
- Give financial incentives for working from home.
- Bring back the 1973/4 fuel coupons to cut greenhouse gas emissions, without waiting for all the other 190+ countries to act first. Strictly enforced 60 mph national speed limit to replace the 70 mph to save fuel. It was cut by 20 mph in 1973 (Marr: 'A History of Modern Britain', p 340)
- Ban/discourage flying as much as you possibly can. Redeploy the staff to future proof the nation. 1001 tasks to energise the nation!
- Cutting deadly greenhouse gases means less damaging economic activity. Therefore, the wealthy like me must financially help all the very many that will suffer from loss of jobs. So do what must be done to ensure that no-one suffers financially. And get the solution jobs moving, immediately.
- Do what Sir Jonathon Porritt advises in his new book, 'Hope in Hell: a decade to confront the climate emergency'.
- Do what Sir David Attenborough says and what Greta Thunberg does!
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