• via The Guardian
Twenty Years of Warnings, Zero Years of Action: How Britain's Housing Crisis Became a Climate Catastrophe
The heatwaves are here to stay, and so are the consequences of our inaction.
While ministers debate subsidizing air conditioning in 2025, the UK housing stock remains fundamentally unfit for the climate conditions we've already experienced. The 40°C temperatures that struck in 2022 weren't a distant possibility requiring decades of preparation—they were the arrival of a predicted reality that successive governments chose to ignore.