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  1. @cedric
    "Areeba Hamid, the co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, said Starmer had “caved like a house of cards in the wind”."
    Who'd want to be the leader - but buck stops with them. Ghastly reprisal of Cameron 'dropping the green crap'; who can measure impact of the #insulatebritain response?

  2. “How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

    by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

    [Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ha]

    @uk_politics
    @thegreenparty

    “Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

    open.substack.com/pub/savagemi

    #Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

  3. “How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

    by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

    [Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ha]

    @uk_politics
    @thegreenparty

    “Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

    open.substack.com/pub/savagemi

    #Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

  4. “How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

    by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

    [Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ha]

    @uk_politics
    @thegreenparty

    “Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

    open.substack.com/pub/savagemi

    #Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

  5. “How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

    by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

    [Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ha]

    @uk_politics
    @thegreenparty

    “Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

    open.substack.com/pub/savagemi

    #Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

  6. “How To Start a Revolution in 2026”

    by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack

    [Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ha]

    @uk_politics
    @thegreenparty

    “Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”

    open.substack.com/pub/savagemi

    #Press #UK #Revolution #Rupture

  7. "This is one aspect of what campaigners call “process as punishment”, an approach that now dominates the treatment of protest groups. Even if you are never convicted of a crime, your life is made hell if you dare, visibly and publicly, to dissent." -- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

    I can verify from the experience of close personal friends that this is true.

    #UKPol
    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #InsulateBritain
    #PalestineAction

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  8. @johannes_lehmann @Ruth_Mottram

    My house in Cambridge was built with walls two bricks wide, in a two parallel, one across pattern. No cavity, and no insulation. Had coal-burning fireplaces at every room (unused but leaking cold air) and radiators heated form a gas furnace. Energy rating E.

    We added 10 cm of a dense modern material to the walls, mostly wood pulp as far as I know, and changed the windows to double or triple glass panel. And replaced the heating with an air-source heat pump. Energy rating A+.

    This should be done for easily more than half of all homes in the UK.
    albert.rierol.net/tell/2022100

    If, around 1900, all the effort, money, and thought that went into mining and transporting all that coal had gone into building houses with cavity walls and thicker windows, all of this mess would have been averted. Alas, a few fat cats wouldn't have become rich. Tragic. Time for the rich to pay it back.

    #InsulateBritain #insulation

  9. @Ruth_Mottram

    "Homes in England had a median Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) score of 68 and homes in Wales had a median EPC score of 67, according to records from the 10 years up to March 2024; both scores are in band D."

    ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationand

    The UK government is so broke, or short-sighted, or both, that it's only considering a policy of bringing houses up to band C:

    "This chapter discusses findings on energy efficiency ratings and heating systems and how this differs by tenure. It then goes on to discuss insulation measures in dwellings, smart meters by tenure and subjective overheating, then finishes with the average cost of improving dwellings to an energy efficiency rating band C."

    gov.uk/government/statistics/c

    Bear in mind that any house with an insulation less than in the A band is going to pay a lot in heating and cooling. A lot. It's like a tax on the poor, or a punishment: to endure cold winters and hot summers.

    #UK #EnergyRating #insulation #InsulateBritain

  10. "Oligarchs and corporations on both sides of the Atlantic want to stamp out any threat to their interests. In the US, this effort has been led by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. In the UK, the commissioner for countering extremism, Robin Simcox, appointed by the Conservative government, but who remains in post until July, previously worked at … the Heritage Foundation" -- George Monbiot

    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #InsulateBritain
    #PolyCrisis
    #Protest

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  11. "Last year [UK police] sent over 1,000 officers from 39 forces, spending £3m, to shut down a climate camp and arrest 24 people, on the grounds that they might have been planning to occupy a road outside a power station. At the same time, they fail even to investigate serious organised crime, citing insufficient resources" -- George Monbiot

    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #InsulateBritain
    #PolyCrisis
    #Protest

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  12. "Keir #Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks" -- George Monbiot

    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #InsulateBritain
    #PolyCrisis
    #Protest

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  13. “An incoming administration not only cancels federal grants but declares recipients as criminals. All these grantees applied under government calls FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WORK, were reviewed and accepted. Trump wants to jail them.“

    He's obviously been taking noted on civil liberties from the UK, which routinely jails climate activists.

    #ClimateEmergency
    #InsulateBritain
    #ExtinctionRebellion

    newrepublic.com/post/192660/tr

  14. @AbramKedge @tompearce49
    At a similar time with not wildly different perceptions.

    Houses to be fair are a lot better now, as they needed to be #insulateBritain and therefore absolutely more expensive to build or to have been brought up to standard, but not in the observed ratio.

    Thatcher et al stealing the council housing and preventing replacement was a huge bad thing.

  15. Disruptive climate protests, like those by #JustStopOil, annoy some but actually work in shifting public opinion and driving policy change. For example, protests by #ExtinctionRebellion and #InsulateBritain led to increased media coverage and influenced climate legislation.

    While some argue that disruptive actions hurt the cause, history shows that nonviolent civil disobedience, even when illegal, can be effective in sparking change, as long as it stays nonviolent. #uk

    znetwork.org/znetarticle/peace

  16. Ich isoliere unsere Küche von außen mit expandiertem PolyStyrol. Die 10 cm dicken Platten dafür gibts in einem lokalen BaustoffMarkt und lassen sich auch mit dem Fahrrad transportieren. Das geht aufgrund der fast 3 m² Segelfläche nur bei wenig Wind und es muss geschoben werden.
    Das Ding kostet 24 Pfund, umgerechnet 29 Euro, Maße 2,4m*1,2m*0,1m, wiegt etwa 5 kg und verursachte etwa 20 kgCO₂eq in der Produktion.
    #CarryShitOlympics #InsulateBritain

  17. Speaking to the BBC last year, the town councillor Olga Podolskaya said she was in "shock".

    "A prison sentence for expressing your opinion is a terrible thing. A two-year jail term is a nightmare."

    Absolutely shocking when authoritarian countries jail people for two years for expressing opinions, isn't it, Judge Christopher Hehir?

    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #InsulateBritain

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7xll

  18. CW: Roger Hallam - farmer turned revolutionary. co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Burning Pink, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil in an effort to save our society from collapse.

    Videos: invidious.fdn.fr/channel/UCnrI

    Helping organise civil disobedience across the world for years and now I'm on Youtube to spread the word. Revolution is inevitable. Either we're prepared for it or we slip into fascism.

    Subscribe to the channel and join my email list at rogerhallam.com/#/portal/signup

    There you'll be part of a community of revolutionaries, trying to get the job done.

    #RogerHallam - #farmer turned ##revolutionary. co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #BurningPink, #InsulateBritain and #JustStopOil in an effort to save our society from #climate #collapse.

  19. @Silversnapples As far as I'm concerned, all of the #InsulateBritain, #ExtinctionRebellion, and #JustStopOil heroes are heroes. They're putting their freedom on the line to try to protect all of our homes and all of our lives -- which is precisely why they're being so relentlessly persecuted by those who want to burn the world.

    #ClimateEmergency

  20. @adrianfry it's a reciprocal roof #roundhouse we're building on my land with timber from trees which were blown down in #StormArwen, for an old friend who is one of the #ExtinctionRebellion / #InsulateBritain heroes and so can't really afford to own anything. It's about 7 metres diameter over the pillars, about 11 over the eves.

  21. @Openhuman
    3°C in 10 Jahren bedeutet in England viele Rohrbrüche wenn nichts dagegen getan wird.
    Unter vielen älteren Häusern gibt es einen 0.5 m hohen belüfteten Hohlraum. Es folgen Holzpfähle, Holzbalken, Bretter und meist ein Bodenbelag wie Laminat. Deshalb ist unser Fußboden so kühl. In diesem teils frostigen Hohlraum sind unsere Gas, Strom, Wasser- und Heizungsrohre nicht wärmeisoliert verlegt. Die müssten dann nach innen verlegt werden.
    Time to #InsulateBritain.

    @peterjelinek

  22. ‘Not What You’d Expect in a Democracy.’ How #Britain Is Waging War Against #ClimateProtesters

    By Yasmeen Serhan/London
    December 16, 2022

    "As the #ClimateCrisis worsens, and as the international efforts to mitigate its effects continue to fall short, activists like #CameronFord have become more daring. Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker.

    "Like most #environmental campaigners, Ford never wanted to do anything that could land him in jail. 'I was hoping to emigrate to Canada one day,' he says from his home in Cambridge. But Ford changed his mind about the need for bolder activism after attending a talk hosted by the climate group #InsulateBritain last summer. 'It made sense to make that stand earlier, whilst there was still a chance that we could actually mitigate the worst of it, rather than once it’s too late,' he says.

    "Ford is hardly alone in that view. Other British protesters like him have gone so far as to tunnel under major infrastructure projects, throw soup at famous works of art, and scale a 190-food bridge—all in a desperate bid to draw the public’s attention to the looming climate catastrophe.

    "But their democratic right to protest is now at risk as the British government declares war on tactics that it regards as disruptive and, ideally, illegal. Draft legislation that the House of Commons approved in October [2022] would pose unprecedented restrictions on the right to #protest in #England and #Wales.

    "'When [#ClimateCollapse] is what we face, I believe the only thing that would curtail us is the death penalty,' says Ford, 'because the alternative to us not standing up is death.'"

    time.com/6241372/uk-public-ord

    #GreatBritain #Fascism #ClimateAction #ClimateActivism #ACAB #WaterIsLife #Oligarchy

  23. ‘Not What You’d Expect in a Democracy.’ How #Britain Is Waging War Against #ClimateProtesters

    By Yasmeen Serhan/London
    December 16, 2022

    "As the #ClimateCrisis worsens, and as the international efforts to mitigate its effects continue to fall short, activists like #CameronFord have become more daring. Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker.

    "Like most #environmental campaigners, Ford never wanted to do anything that could land him in jail. 'I was hoping to emigrate to Canada one day,' he says from his home in Cambridge. But Ford changed his mind about the need for bolder activism after attending a talk hosted by the climate group #InsulateBritain last summer. 'It made sense to make that stand earlier, whilst there was still a chance that we could actually mitigate the worst of it, rather than once it’s too late,' he says.

    "Ford is hardly alone in that view. Other British protesters like him have gone so far as to tunnel under major infrastructure projects, throw soup at famous works of art, and scale a 190-food bridge—all in a desperate bid to draw the public’s attention to the looming climate catastrophe.

    "But their democratic right to protest is now at risk as the British government declares war on tactics that it regards as disruptive and, ideally, illegal. Draft legislation that the House of Commons approved in October [2022] would pose unprecedented restrictions on the right to #protest in #England and #Wales.

    "'When [#ClimateCollapse] is what we face, I believe the only thing that would curtail us is the death penalty,' says Ford, 'because the alternative to us not standing up is death.'"

    time.com/6241372/uk-public-ord

    #GreatBritain #Fascism #ClimateAction #ClimateActivism #ACAB #WaterIsLife #Oligarchy

  24. ‘Not What You’d Expect in a Democracy.’ How #Britain Is Waging War Against #ClimateProtesters

    By Yasmeen Serhan/London
    December 16, 2022

    "As the #ClimateCrisis worsens, and as the international efforts to mitigate its effects continue to fall short, activists like #CameronFord have become more daring. Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker.

    "Like most #environmental campaigners, Ford never wanted to do anything that could land him in jail. 'I was hoping to emigrate to Canada one day,' he says from his home in Cambridge. But Ford changed his mind about the need for bolder activism after attending a talk hosted by the climate group #InsulateBritain last summer. 'It made sense to make that stand earlier, whilst there was still a chance that we could actually mitigate the worst of it, rather than once it’s too late,' he says.

    "Ford is hardly alone in that view. Other British protesters like him have gone so far as to tunnel under major infrastructure projects, throw soup at famous works of art, and scale a 190-food bridge—all in a desperate bid to draw the public’s attention to the looming climate catastrophe.

    "But their democratic right to protest is now at risk as the British government declares war on tactics that it regards as disruptive and, ideally, illegal. Draft legislation that the House of Commons approved in October [2022] would pose unprecedented restrictions on the right to #protest in #England and #Wales.

    "'When [#ClimateCollapse] is what we face, I believe the only thing that would curtail us is the death penalty,' says Ford, 'because the alternative to us not standing up is death.'"

    time.com/6241372/uk-public-ord

    #GreatBritain #Fascism #ClimateAction #ClimateActivism #ACAB #WaterIsLife #Oligarchy

  25. Climate activists have told openDemocracy they are being hit with “crippling” bills totalling thousands of pounds because of legal action brought by government and public bodies to prevent protests and protect planet killers.

    opendemocracy.net/en/civil-inj

    “This government in particular doesn't like being challenged by groups such as Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.”
    #Fascism #EcocideProtection #ProfitPolicy #BillionsSuffer #Corruption #EconomicAssault #EnvironmentalAssault #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #PlanetDefenders

  26. Climate activists have told openDemocracy they are being hit with “crippling” bills totalling thousands of pounds because of legal action brought by government and public bodies to prevent protests and protect planet killers.

    opendemocracy.net/en/civil-inj

    “This government in particular doesn't like being challenged by groups such as Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.”
    #Fascism #EcocideProtection #ProfitPolicy #BillionsSuffer #Corruption #EconomicAssault #EnvironmentalAssault #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #PlanetDefenders

  27. Climate activists have told openDemocracy they are being hit with “crippling” bills totalling thousands of pounds because of legal action brought by government and public bodies to prevent protests and protect planet killers.

    opendemocracy.net/en/civil-inj

    “This government in particular doesn't like being challenged by groups such as Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.”
    #Fascism #EcocideProtection #ProfitPolicy #BillionsSuffer #Corruption #EconomicAssault #EnvironmentalAssault #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #PlanetDefenders

  28. Climate activists have told openDemocracy they are being hit with “crippling” bills totalling thousands of pounds because of legal action brought by government and public bodies to prevent protests and protect planet killers.

    opendemocracy.net/en/civil-inj

    “This government in particular doesn't like being challenged by groups such as Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion.”
    #Fascism #EcocideProtection #ProfitPolicy #BillionsSuffer #Corruption #EconomicAssault #EnvironmentalAssault #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #PlanetDefenders

  29. Interessanter Beitrag im Guardian über Proteste mit #zivilerUngehorsam.

    In einem MDR-Beitrag konnte man ja sehen, dass 80% der deutschen Bevölkerung dagegen sind. In GB sind es 78%. Wie sieht es also aus? Nützt es was? Schadet es? Sven #Hillenkamp hatte ja so Studien zu Einstellung nach Protesten von #ExtinctionRebellion und #JustStopOil. Er sagt, dass es #Flankeneffekte gibt oder geben könnte, d.h. diejenigen, die weniger radikal sind, profitieren, wenn sie sich distanzieren. Ich selbst finde die #Klimakleber also #völligBekloppt, aber ich denke natürlich pausenlos darüber nach, wie was funktioniert und wo wir alle hinkommen. Zur Zeit sieht es nach Hölle aus. #Klimahölle.

    Mit den Flankeneffekten ist das auch eine schwierige Sache, denn viele Menschen differenzieren einfach gar nicht. Als ich beim #Volksentscheid mit lila Weste Unterschriften gesammelt habe, wurde ich gefragt, ob ich von der #LetzteGeneration wäre. „Ach iwo, die haben doch orangene Westen.“

    Der Guardian-Artikel ist jetzt jedenfalls interessant, weil die Umfrage unter Protestforscher*innen zu Tage gebracht hat, dass sieben von zehn denken, dass diese Art von Protest etwas bringt.

    Großbritannien ist ein bisschen anders als hier, denn die Protestwellen habe die Forderung direkt im Namen: #InsulateBritain. Das scheint irgendwie als Message angekommen zu sein.

    Aber auch hierzulande sehen Protestforscher*innen eine Wirkung und Simon Theune ist ja auch als Zeuge vor Gericht aufgetreten und hat gesagt, dass Protest stören muss. In diesem Verfahren gab es dann fünf Freisprüche.

    theguardian.com/world/2023/jul

  30. I mean, when #FossilFuel companies want to drill and wreck the planet, the #UK government is happy to foot 91% of the bill for them to do that.

    But "there is no money" to help homeowners #insulate their homes and reduce their emissions?

    Following the money makes it super clear whose side that government is on.

    Eh, #InsulateBritain?

    ft.com/content/19ed2d1b-7eb6-4

  31. I mean, when #FossilFuel companies want to drill and wreck the planet, the #UK government is happy to foot 91% of the bill for them to do that.

    But "there is no money" to help homeowners #insulate their homes and reduce their emissions?

    Following the money makes it super clear whose side that government is on.

    Eh, #InsulateBritain?

    ft.com/content/19ed2d1b-7eb6-4

  32. I mean, when #FossilFuel companies want to drill and wreck the planet, the #UK government is happy to foot 91% of the bill for them to do that.

    But "there is no money" to help homeowners #insulate their homes and reduce their emissions?

    Following the money makes it super clear whose side that government is on.

    Eh, #InsulateBritain?

    ft.com/content/19ed2d1b-7eb6-4

  33. I mean, when #FossilFuel companies want to drill and wreck the planet, the #UK government is happy to foot 91% of the bill for them to do that.

    But "there is no money" to help homeowners #insulate their homes and reduce their emissions?

    Following the money makes it super clear whose side that government is on.

    Eh, #InsulateBritain?

    ft.com/content/19ed2d1b-7eb6-4