To think fcuk all is being done to combat climate change

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Most people don't seem to care and I rarely hear of it anymore despite being told months ago of the dire warnings. Aibu to think no action is being taken either by governments or by the average person?

Same here dragging me screaming

@DdraigGoch no an ASHP uses 75,% less energy, the technology has been around for over 100 years. If you have s fridge you have a heat pump.

Was thinking this earlier. Jack Monroe posted a list of things on her twitter that, if you do any of, mean you are suffering from the energy crisis. My local paper reported them as "drastic" measures people are taking to cut their bills. They included things like: using a slow cooker rather than the oven occasionally, wearing a jumper inside the house, not constantly heating unused rooms, looking at the weather forecast and using heating more on colder days and leaving it off on milder days, taking a hot water bottle/electric blanket to bed...

All things I thought were completely normal and sensible, and did well before the current price increases. Apparently indicators of dire poverty!

To me, things like showering more than once a day, washing and tumble drying clothes as soon as they've been worn once, changing your bedding more than once a week, sitting in the house with the heating on wearing just a t shirt, heating the house to ridiculous levels like 26 degrees should all be luxuries, because they are completely unnecessary and hugely environmentally unfriendly. Yet to read threads on MN and hear people IRL the thought of possibly having to wear their clothes more than once and dry things on the line, and not use their hot tubs every night, are practically a violation of their human rights. How can we possibly expect to reduce climate change when most people won't even make these very easy and painless cuts to their standards of living?

@latetothefisting well said! I remember a thread like this a while ago and the poster was describing a scene outside a supermarket when they introduced a charge to plastic bags and she said the outrage was as if they were chopping people's heads off in store.