UK homes are built to the expectation of a mild, damp climate and so have poor insulation and construction requirements compared to places with extremely cold, extremely hot, or extremely variable climates. Furthermore, the government is thoroughly devoted to neoliberalism and has more or less degraded all of its capacity to do anything but support financial capitalism. Climate mitigation engineering is absolutely feasible but not within the bounds of a state that has lost the ability to perform megascale feats like comprehensive grid upgrades and mass scale architectural retrofitting.
Like for instance Canada ran a grant program where the government would just pay for a heat pump or some other home greening measure to reduce energy needs or improve climate resilience. Ran out of money almost instantly because it was so popular, and seeing the huge success of the “give people money to do good things that lessen the ongoing costs of society” program they replaced it with a loan program.
Did the same thing with EV rebates. The rebate programs kept running out of money because so many people wanted to buy EVs, so the solution is to taper off the rebate and end it entirely.
UK homes are built to the expectation of a mild, damp climate and so have poor insulation and construction requirements compared to places with extremely cold, extremely hot, or extremely variable climates. Furthermore, the government is thoroughly devoted to neoliberalism and has more or less degraded all of its capacity to do anything but support financial capitalism. Climate mitigation engineering is absolutely feasible but not within the bounds of a state that has lost the ability to perform megascale feats like comprehensive grid upgrades and mass scale architectural retrofitting.
Like for instance Canada ran a grant program where the government would just pay for a heat pump or some other home greening measure to reduce energy needs or improve climate resilience. Ran out of money almost instantly because it was so popular, and seeing the huge success of the “give people money to do good things that lessen the ongoing costs of society” program they replaced it with a loan program.
Did the same thing with EV rebates. The rebate programs kept running out of money because so many people wanted to buy EVs, so the solution is to taper off the rebate and end it entirely.