@MattMastodon One of the problems is the incredibly low quality of our housing. Heat pumps are only viable in well-insulated buildings and ours are generally not. #InsulateBritain

Interessanter Beitrag im Guardian über Proteste mit #zivilerUngehorsam.

In einem MDR-Beitrag konnte man ja sehen, dass 80% der deutschen Bevölkerung dagegen sind. In GB sind es 78%. Wie sieht es also aus? Nützt es was? Schadet es? Sven #Hillenkamp hatte ja so Studien zu Einstellung nach Protesten von #ExtinctionRebellion und #JustStopOil. Er sagt, dass es #Flankeneffekte gibt oder geben könnte, d.h. diejenigen, die weniger radikal sind, profitieren, wenn sie sich distanzieren. Ich selbst finde die #Klimakleber #völligBekloppt, aber ich denke natürlich pausenlos darüber nach, wie was funktioniert und wo wir alle hinkommen. Zur Zeit sieht es nach Hölle aus. #Klimahölle.

Mit den Flankeneffekten ist das auch eine schwierige Sache, denn viele Menschen differenzieren einfach gar nicht. Als ich beim #Volksentscheid mit lila Weste Unterschriften gesammelt habe, wurde ich gefragt, ob ich von der #LetzteGeneration wäre. „Ach iwo, die haben doch orangene Westen.“

Der Guardian-Artikel ist jetzt jedenfalls interessant, weil die Umfrage unter Protestforscher*innen zu Tage gebracht hat, dass sieben von zehn denken, dass diese Art von Protest etwas bringt.

Großbritannien ist ein bisschen anders als hier, denn die Protestwellen habe die Forderung direkt im Namen: #InsulateBritain. Das scheint irgendwie als Message angekommen zu sein.

Aber auch hierzulande sehen Protestforscher*innen eine Wirkung und Simon Theune ist ja auch als Zeuge vor Gericht aufgetreten und hat gesagt, dass Protest stören muss. In diesem Verfahren gab es dann fünf Freisprüche.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/disruptive-protest-helps-not-hinders-activists-cause-experts-say

@UKFilmNerd I enjoyed the thing recently where:

1) #InsulateBritain protesters raise awareness that UK housing stock needs to be better insulated

2) UK government throws them in jail

3) UK government sets targets for #HeatPump roll-out

4) Targets are missed because such a large proportion of homes… have insufficient insulation!

Oh wait, no, I didn't enjoy it, it made me frustrated, disappointed and angry…

#UKPolitics #ClimateChange

Home heating bills could fall by £24bn if the efficiency of 13m homes was upgraded to at least a C rating under the energy performance certificate (EPC) scheme by 2030, from research by Citizens Advice.

Warmer homes could help avoid 6,000 unnecessary winter deaths every & save the #NHS about £2bn by preventing millions of people from developing respiratory conditions including asthma.

#InsulateBritain #Insulation #EnergyBills #EPC #CitizensAdvice #EnergyEfficiency

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/20/fixing-uk-draughty-homes-could-add-40bn-to-economy-by-2030-citizens-advice-energy-efficiency-standards

This cannot be right. These are clearly good, principled people.
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RT @InsulateLove
🚨BREAKING: THREE #InsulateBritain SUPPORTERS SENT TO PRISON AFTER THEY PLEDGE TO CONTINUE #CivilResistance

They had stopped traffic on Bishopsgate on 25/10/21, other supporters who were part of the same roadblock have been acquitted. 🧵

Read in full: https://insulatebritain.com/2023/04/18/breaking-three-insulate-britain-supporters-sent-to-prison-af…
https://twitter.com/InsulateLove/status/1648380169034383385

Irony alert.

UK Gov talking of removing gas subsidies, making it even MORE expensive for consumers as a way to nudge us off gas and onto heat pumps.

I'm all for heat pumps but they rely heavily on a well-insulated home as a starting point.

Even with grant support for a heat pump, the full cost of installation including precursor insulation, remains prohibitive for many who are not eligible for insulation grants.

Another missed opportunity for #InsulateBritain

RT @InsulateLove
Judge Silas 'Silence' Reid ordered the arrest of Trudi, an #InsulateBritain supporter, who stood outside Inner London Crown Court yesterday with this placard:

RT @InsulateLove
"In the past, juries have acquitted campaigners after listening to their rationale for seemingly unlawful protest.

But at Inner London (#CrownCourt) jurors are being denied the #truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

#InsulateBritain #SilencedbySilas @thetimes https://twitter.com/TimesONeill/status/1635345681639706626

RT @InsulateLove
Today, Stephen Pritchard, 63, a property maintenance worker from Bath was sentenced to 5 weeks in prison for demanding that @GOVUK #InsulateBritain

In his mitigation statement he said:

🧵

RT @InsulateLove
Today, Judge Silas Reid, who has denied Insulate Britain campaigners from mentioning "climate crisis" & "fuel poverty" in their trials, will sentence the first 4 who were found guilty by jury.

We are in #CivilResistance to a state that is failing its citizens!

#InsulateBritain

Wenn ich diesen Thread von @friedemann drüben lese (und einen weiteren, auf den er verweist), vermisse ich die gute alte Tradition des Blog Schreibens doch sehr. Es geht (mal wieder - oder immer noch) um die Proteste von
#LetzteGeneration
#JustStopOil
#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
Konkret um eine Studie aus England, die untersucht, wie Menschen auf disruptive Aktionen von "Just Stop Oil" reagieren.

https://twitter.com/f_karig/status/1634556214666305537?s=46&t=ydgUEgiI6xQPZx9deCOGZw

Und hier den Blog Beitrag dazu https://uebermedien.de/79076/warum-die-letzte-generation-alles-richtig-macht/

#UK #ClimateAction #InsulateBritain #antiprotestlaws

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/court-restrictions-on-climate-protesters-deeply-concerning-say-leading-lawyers

“Three non-violent Insulate Britain activists have been jailed for telling juries why they were protesting.”

What?

“Three non-violent Insulate Britain activists have been jailed for telling juries why they were protesting.”

Now, tell me again about how there is freedom of speech in Britain.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/08/court-restrictions-on-climate-protesters-deeply-concerning-say-leading-lawyers

#InsulateBritain #Fascism #PoliceState #Climate

"Überraschende Studie zu den Protesten von
#LetzteGeneration
#JustStopOil
#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
(...)
über die Wirkung von Straßenblockaden, Gemälde-Bewerfungen und anderen nicht-legalen Klima-Protesten.

Es geht um eine Randomisierte Kontrollstudie (RCT, Randomised Control Trial) mit 3000 Teilnehmenden, die 2022 in Großbritannien durchgeführt wurde.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1632759085576667141.html

History won't be kind on such judges, nor should it be.

Quite clearly, this is a perversion of procedure, and richer defendents would have been able to counter it.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/activists-jailed-for-seven-weeks-for-defying-ban-on-mentioning-climate-crisis/

#badlaw #legal #UK #InsulateBritain #climatechange

RT @InsulateLove
🚨BREAKING: #INSULATEBRITAIN SUPPORTER DEFIES COURT GAGGING ORDER & SPEAKS ABOUT FUEL POVERTY & CLIMATE

Cllr Giovannna Lewis said to the jury;

“Every year thousands of UK citizens die of fuel poverty & thousands die in the world due to the climate crisis ... 🧵

"To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do so, he was sent to jail"

George Monbiot on the way the #UK government and prosecutors are using ancient public nuisance laws to stifle defendants and secure convictions of environmental protesters.

#InsulateBritain #ExtinctionRebellion #JustStopOil #Environment #ClimateEmergency #UKPolitics #CriminalJustice

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/22/climate-activist-criminals-heroes-truth

"Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral"
- George Monbiot writes in today's Guardian (22.02.2023) -
"It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury"
...
"Police and prosecutors now have so many laws to choose from that they can both prevent any meaningful protest from happening and ensure that protesters’ defences are as weak as possible.
...
In 2020, a judge found three Extinction Rebellion protesters guilty of breaching a section 14 public order notice. But he is reported to have told them: “Thank you for your courtesy, thank you for your integrity, thank you for your honesty. You have to succeed.” He is said to have continued: “This is going to be my last Extinction Rebellion trial for a little while. I think they only allow us to do so many of these before our sympathies start to overwhelm us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/22/climate-activist-criminals-heroes-truth

#ClimateCrisis #Climate #UK #InsulateBritain #ExtinctionRebellion #PoliceState #fff

This stopped being linked from the guardian front page just a few hours after it was posted. #XavierGonzalez #insulateBritain
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/21/insulate-britain-activist-xavier-gonzalez-trimmer-found-dead

Defendants in six criminal trials for Insulate Britain action have all been restricted from talking about the climate emergency, as a result of rulings by Reid. He told the jury on Monday: “Each defendant acted in the way they did because they felt it was necessary to do so to further their protests. I did not allow you to hear about their motivation because it wasn’t relevant.”

#ClimateEmergency
#InsulateBritain

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/13/insulate-britain-activists-found-guilty-blockade