Is it easy being green?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Is our electricity extra expensive and our insulation inadequate? And a tale of tumbling trees.
Internet infographics suggest we’re paying way more for our energy than countries in the EU. Are they being interpreted correctly? And what part, if any, has Brexit had to play?
Insulation Britain activists have been gluing themselves to motorway slip-roads to raise awareness about poor home insulation. Their website says we have the least energy efficient homes in Europe. What’s the evidence?
Plus, what do the numbers tell us about migrants trying to cross the Channel in small boats? Are stereotypes about different generations backed up by the data? And is it or is it not true that the UK has lots of trees?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.6 | Hello and welcome to More or Less, the show that reduces numerical confusion, reuses trusted |
| 0:11.8 | statistical methods and recycles old jokes occasionally. |
| 0:16.8 | This week is it easy being green? |
| 0:19.7 | Well we're going to find out. |
| 0:21.6 | Coming up is it true that British homes are the worst insulated in Europe. |
| 0:26.9 | Next generation Z, all these data free generalisations have me asking, generations why? |
| 0:34.4 | We look at what the numbers tell us about migrants trying to cross the channel in small |
| 0:38.4 | boats. |
| 0:39.6 | And is it or is it not true that the UK has lots of trees? |
| 0:44.7 | Curious listeners want to know. |
| 0:47.0 | But first, let's talk about the dramatic shortages of vital goods and services. |
| 0:53.6 | Tim, we're going to have to be a bit more specific than that. |
| 0:57.2 | Were you thinking about Laurie drivers? |
| 0:59.2 | No we did that in the first programme of the series Simon, I think you were on a beach |
| 1:02.4 | somewhere, probably clacked and... |
| 1:03.9 | Petrol and diesel? |
| 1:05.4 | I think the official position of the government is that there is no shortage of fuel and |
| 1:09.2 | who am I to argue? |
| 1:10.3 | Turkeys? |
| 1:11.3 | We don't want to use up our Christmas material too early Simon. |
| 1:14.9 | Actually, I was thinking of gas and electricity because that's a problem that's vanished from |
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