We are so surprised to see Spain struggling with one digit temperatures while poor tribes in the Eastern EU are doing just fine with minus degrees outside. In other words, in Spain you'll freeze inside your home in the "winter" even if outside are no less than 10 degrees and sunny, simply because they do not insulate their houses much. Thus, it is a massive loss of energy (and thus pollution), and a lot of discomfort for people. It is not unusual for people here to stay with their shoes on and their jackets inside the house...
UK is in a similar, or worse situation, and now I'm reading "Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/failure-insulate-uk-homes-costing-thousands-of-lives-winter-cold-deaths
Insane! I bet there are thousands in Spain that also die because of this.
So not only that it is a massi
... show moreWe are so surprised to see Spain struggling with one digit temperatures while poor tribes in the Eastern EU are doing just fine with minus degrees outside. In other words, in Spain you'll freeze inside your home in the "winter" even if outside are no less than 10 degrees and sunny, simply because they do not insulate their houses much. Thus, it is a massive loss of energy (and thus pollution), and a lot of discomfort for people. It is not unusual for people here to stay with their shoes on and their jackets inside the house...
UK is in a similar, or worse situation, and now I'm reading "Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/failure-insulate-uk-homes-costing-thousands-of-lives-winter-cold-deaths
Insane! I bet there are thousands in Spain that also die because of this.
So not only that it is a massive energy loss and pollution as a result from using fossil fuels to create that energy; not only it is a lot of discomfort for people. But some are dying as a result, possibly thousands....
And all they have to do is to INSULATE THE HOUSES. Easy!
But difficult if there is no incentive to do so.
Such a stupid world we live in.
#climatechange #climate #waste #winter #spain #uk
Analysis finds 58 people have died due to cold homes every winter day since 2013 Tory pledge to ‘cut the green crap’
Matthew Taylor (The Guardian)