Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

RT @greenmattbfd: ⚠️ TODAYS DAILY REMINDER THAT #PAKISTAN IS BEARING THE BRUNT OF #CLIMATEBREAKDOWN!

🌡️ Over 50 degrees Celsius temperatures in May

🌧️ Now, record monsoon rains leading to catastrophic floods

🌍 We can't carry on ignoring #ClimateChange. It's happening.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/28/pakistan-floods-a-thousand-dead-millions-affected-by-horrors-of-climate-change

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@MicWelshman @UKLabour Total rubbish from biased sources. Australia is riddled with climate denial and fossil fuel lobbyists.
Look at you!

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@ian_Leeds_UK @doodleslave One good company isn't evidence that private profit works. It's evidence that one company spent millions on good works. Also shows that it'd be better if things were joined up so clearing drains & looking after rivers along their entire course was all one coherent public service.

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RT @PaulbernalUK: The long term plan should always have been more investment in sustainable energy. So many other benefits: emissions are just the start. We didn’t. We still won’t. Short termism, vested interests, etc. oh, and idiots.

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@360Chambers @Redbil5 German railways are a bit unreliable at the moment, but that's not because they're state owned. Ours are just as bad. To get good affordable railways you need to fund them like you fund the roads, and have proper management practices, with no bonuses for bosses who've failed.

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@MicWelshman @UKLabour 96% of the price rise is due to the price of imported gas (and UK gas at global market prices). Renewables are perfectly affordable. If we'd invested in renewables, Ofgem wouldn't still be pegging prices to gas. UK needs to be fossil-fuel-free for national security in wartime.

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RT @RichardJMurphy: There is a dimension to this which is not discussed at all, which is changing the way in which domestic energy is priced in the UK. The rules are set by Ofgem, the government regulator. These prices are set to make matters as bad as possible for everyone but energy companies.

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@JohnGower1 @leethario @TheGreenParty The cost need never be added to anyone's bill. That's the way they impose the costs on the poor and deliver profits to the capitalists. They make the poor pay money to the rich. It doesn't need to be like that. Take a look at Green Party policies (or read @RichardJMurphy).

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@JohnGower1 @leethario @TheGreenParty Do you think we shouldn't have subsidies for renewable energy schemes? Not surprising we're in this mess, if there is no government investment in converting to reliable safe future-proof energy that is not vulnerable in times of war.

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@CmdrSpace @DAOBarry Yes, that would be a better description, though you'd still need to specify that you wanted to know only about the hours spent doing it not for pay (because carers are sometimes paid). It's not my table. Perhaps the ONS collects more items than this in its complete statistics.

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@PaulbernalUK We used to build our own windmills and wind pumps from wood. Time every village built itself one....

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@CmdrSpace @DAOBarry No one is labelling anything. We are counting up what you spend your hours on. If you have kids and look after them, that is some hours spent on childcare (but you are not running a nursery). See?

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@bobehpearson Nuclear is the most costly and destructive. Takes ages to come online. Impossible to decommission. Out of date technology.
We could've had tidal, wave power, storage. We could've had onshore wind. We could've had solar on every works roof.
Tories and Labour have all failed us.

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@JohnGower1 @leethario @TheGreenParty Yes, and they could make it a nationalised energy company to which they could take customers, and then any subsidies would go to help our own people and invest in our energy systems, instead of being put out to profit the rich again. Tories privatise profit and socialise debt.

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@CmdrSpace @DAOBarry David is trying to explain why the statistic specifies "unpaid child care". That means looking after your own children or grandchildren, or your neighbour's child etc. If you do paid childcare for other people's children it will be included in work, or working from home.

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@Sruiruim On the contrary. Those are still cheap. It's oil and gas we can't afford. We needed to be 100% renewable by now, and we'd be immune from the price rises.

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@ian_Leeds_UK @aeyles21 Many right wing Tories are eyeing it up to convert to an insurance scheme (so they can profit from selling unaffordable insurance to sick people). But they also like "free at the point of use", so services paid for from public funds deliver 💷 from the public 👛 to profiteers.

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Let's take this in.
The *German* owner of this *coal* power station will be *paid a fee* to keep it open in a climate crisis.🙄
Even though 25% of us can't afford to switch the light on anyway.
And we could've had affordable onshore wind. 👀
#ToryShambles
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/28/national-grid-nears-deal-third-coal-power-station-on-standby?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @MaryonTina No, that's poor economics and a misunderstanding of how state funding works. Look at post war Britain and you'll get the idea.

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@dunn_d23847834 @Redbil5 Indeed Blair was to blame. Why did you think I don't blame Labour? But Thatcher started it.

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