What is the one thing London needs most?

[Murph7355]

Nickgnome said:

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Car wise apart from a couple of company cars the rest were bought second hand.
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I was more meaning the....eclectic... nature of the choices really.

(Though presumably as a company car you could have said no thanks to the Ghia - I'm assuming you didn't *choose* an Escort? - and taken an L instead to save a few trees/polar bears?)

Nickgnome said:

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Of course I consume. It’s unrealistic to expect people to change overnight. It’s possible to adjust behaviour though, without really noticing much impact. Plastic bags for instance was a really easy win.

Low energy housing has to be a huge benefit to everyone, more comfortable, much cheaper to run and will reduce the need for increasing total capacity.

We're in agreement broadly, that non-consumption is not practical.

But then you have the thorny challenge of who decides. I don't want it to be you, for example

What is "moderate" to one person is "profligacy" to another and "poverty" to another.

It also doesn't fit with what the full on activists want...and opens up cries of hypocrisy (my latest theory being this is our killer).

On low energy housing...agreed. But for new housing stock. Converting old often isn't practical. And like Digga, I suspect it's far better to re-use than to build new or even recycle. I'm also far from convinced the cost models for this sort of thing or always complete/robust.