Chris Carus
Domestic energy efficiency and heat pumps in Glasgow. Exec officer at Loco Home Retrofit CIC, Glasgow's community-led retrofit one stop shop - a hub for households and tradespeople. locohome.coop
https://bsky.app/profile/locohome.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chris CarusHow much will it cost the UK to reach an 87% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040? In a new letter, @thecccuk.bsky.social confirms about £4bn a year (£26bn a year of costs minus £22bn a year of savings). www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/u... 87% by 2040 is a stepping stone to net zero by 2050
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- Reposted by Chris CarusEpstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Chris CarusAs settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. By Basel Adra. www.972mag.com/settler-sold...
- Me: ’so what music do you like now?’ 7 yo: ‘aphex twin’ Upbringing status: ON TRACK.
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- Reposted by Chris CarusI don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
- We had to update your customer enquiry picklist at @locohome.bsky.social recently. Only at enquiry stage for the deep retrofit architect-led process, but lets see what happens.
- Reposted by Chris CarusThis is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
- Another BBC explainer that fails to shed any light whatsoever on the question In the headline: ‘why are prices still rising’. obviously couldn’t mention the impact of climate change on agricultural output. Or indeed anything else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- It’s Warm Homes Plan Eve! Won’t sleep tonight. How are we all coping? The WHP is mostly about Eng&Wales but I’m still interested in ECO successor and it unlocking ScotGov action. @lizlaine.bsky.social @katedes.bsky.social @marianneh.bsky.social @lowwintersun.bsky.social @richardlowes.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Chris CarusHe didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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- This is great: “How do we minimize upfront carbon and operating emissions while improving health and comfort with the least stuff for the most people?”
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- Vaccines cause adults. 👍
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- Reposted by Chris CarusMy dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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- Excellent action on just transition from UK Gov:
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- This Black Friday, instead of buy crap you do t need, fix cold and damp problems for good with @locohome.bsky.social !! Enquire at locohome.coop
- Tessa Khan of Uplift doing a great job of grounding discussion at the Just Transition Commission Summit in the ecological and economic reality of the climate crisis. Discussion is otherwise dancing a little too politely around the feelings of the oil and gas industry IMO.