Last month, I was invited on talkRADIO, supposedly to talk about my activism as part of Insulate Britain. But rather than being asked seriously about our campaign, I was forced to defend my job – I’m a carpenter – fielding increasingly nonsensical questions such as “how is it sustainable if you’re killing trees?”
The answer, of course, is that you can grow trees. But I’m not sure if the host was actually interested in my answers; I was simply being put through the ‘you’re a hypocrite’ routine that anyone who dares to criticise the system is subject to. The 60-second interrogation ended with the host insisting that “you can grow all sorts of things”, including, he said, seemingly in all seriousness, concrete. The internet erupted in laughter and produced some really cool memes – pictures of concrete car parks captioned “I only planted this back in March”, or towering brutalist structures accompanied by the words “all this from a single brick”.
What’s not funny is the government's response to Insulate Britain’s demands, in light of its own pitiful home insulation plan.
