Levelling up or socialism or basic Gospel teaching!

 Dear Peter and Geo

Thank you for organising the excellent and helpful Zoom meeting yesterday.  It has prompted these thoughts.  Could this be forwarded to the others who attended, please so I get their comments?

I would like to emphasise the importance of insulation and minimising the spaces that need heating in the first place, viz:

1. Insulating or lagging ourselves with layers of clothing when we sit in a smaller rather than larger room.
2. That room at a maximum of 20 C with other parts of the house not even heated at all, ideally.
3. We know heat rises.  Therefore, consider sleeping on the ground floor and living on the first floor.
4. Press for small to medium-sized homes for new housing estates with PV on every W, E, S facing slope for the building beneath..
5. Encourage small to medium-sized families.
6. Press for laws where the wealth of the nation is more evenly distributed, to discourage the rich from walking off with more than their fair share of resources and most responsibility for the climate/ecological emergency.  Called levelling up or socialism or basic Gospel teaching!
7. Accept that even medium income households are taking more than their fair share of resources and that we all need to tread more lightly on the planet by making do with less, instead of ever more stuff.
8. My own home, a 3-storey townhouse, is ideal where my wife and I live on the first floor with one L-shaped dining/living room that means minimum heating is required.  Our total energy bills are not much more than £1 a day.
9. It is mid-terrace, with a small area of land at the front and back.  PV means it is a mini power station, with about 75% exported to the Grid.  Giving instead of taking!
10. This kind of more simple living is essential if we are to postpone or, ideally reverse the sixth mass extinction episode that we humans are causing to ourselves.

I would like to ask that these Zoom meetings are excellent and should continue.  However, breakout rooms do mean that people will talk about their own ideas, that one person can then feedback for the final few minutes.  One hour is too short, I think but an extra 30 minutes for breakout and final conclusions and summary is ideal.

Best wishes

Tim

to Doug Thorpe, Nat Sec, Left Unity

This is a most useful and authoritative overview, Doug.  Thank you.

I would add that each of us must be active individually in writing, texting, phoning and trying to engage with the decision-makers. I want to influence them towards implementing actions and expenditure to build a low greenhouse gas emitting society, urgently and, to take wealth from the rich to level up the poor for that eco-socialist society you wrote about.  And, for those with excess wealth to voluntarily part with it to humanitarian and poverty-fighting organisations.

We can even commend the Conservative talk of levelling up as being our sociable eco-socialism of, "from each according to his ability to each according to his need."  This is such a fine principle for especially B Johnson and crew to adopt.

Ecology before economic prosperity; and all are actions subordinated to the urgent imperative of slashing greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning.

Of being remembered by our descendants as ancestors who DID act to limit the runaway greenhouse effect.