#ICYMI Last week’s @Common_Weal Newsletter!

📈 Responsibility without Power
✊ Solidarity with Rail Workers
📃 National Care Service (Scotland) Bill
🌅 Nuclear Sunset
🏊‍♂️ Scotland Can’t Swim
🥕 OCH: Food

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📈 Responsibility without Power

Jim Cuthbert says the Scottish Spending Review casts a sombre light on the next 4 years & implies significant cuts in services as @scotgov walks into the Treasury's fiscal settlement trap as its jaws are closing.

More at: commonweal.scot/fiscal-trap/
✊ Solidarity with Rail Workers

@NikBiggerstaff notes over 40,000 @RMTunion members across the UK have downed tools in their biggest walkout in over 30 years. She says that if we believe in workers' rights, we must support their right to strike.

More at: commonweal.scot/rail-strike/
📃 National Care Service (Scotland) Bill

@Nick_Kempe has been looking at the new Bill with concern. It is clear even from a preliminary reading that this bill will not deliver the vision of an NCS for Scotland that we set out in Caring for All.

More at: commonweal.scot/ncs-bill/
🌅 Nuclear Sunset

@thecommongreen reports a historic milestone in the long campaign against nuclear weapons & looks at where Scotland stands after the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into force last January.

More at: commonweal.scot/nuclear-sunset/
🏊‍♂️ Scotland Can’t Swim

Kaitlin Dryburgh is an experienced swim teacher worried that Scotland is the only UK country where swimming lessons aren't in the curriculum. With increased drownings each year, children in poverty are especially at risk.

More at: commonweal.scot/swimming-lesso…
🥕 OCH: Food

Robin McAlpine says there was probably no more difficult or contentious section of the Common Home Plan to write than Food & that he's come to realise just how passionately people feel about food & how we produce it.

More at: commonweal.scot/och-food/

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This needs to change. 👇
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This transition should benefit everyone, not a small number at the expense of the rest. To do this we need to diversify land ownership. /2
So what’s wrong with the way we do land now? 🤔

⛰ Hill farming
🦌 Deer stalking
🐦 Grouse shooting

…not to mention the undemocratic distribution of ownership & the impact this has on rural employment opportunities. But let’s focus on the direct environmental impacts first. /3
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This week’s @Common_Weal Newsletter!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Finally, the Campaign Continues
🗣 Roe vs Wade & its implications
🏚 Tenants’ Rights & Rent Controls
🤔 A Different National Care Service
⛰ OCH: Land

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Finally, the Campaign Continues

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More at: commonweal.scot/campaign-conti…
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More at: commonweal.scot/roe-wade/
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In the Common Home Plan we call for the use of regenerative agriculture to protect the natural environment.
But what does this actually mean? Take a look at this thread to find out. 🧵 /1
Agroecology is a term for what can be considered 'regenerative agriculture' – a system of farming in which the essential elements of the agricultural process (soil, water, pollinators) are managed so they regenerate themselves. /2
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Since all options for decarbonising heat are expensive & disruptive it is helpful to focus on the quality of the outcome.

It is the only future-proofed option since any new heat-generating technologies can simply be 'plugged in' to the ring main & feed the existing system. /2
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In Scotland, 95% of our heating emits greenhouse gasses – the highest proportion in Europe. We need to change on a big scale & invest in a new heating system.

Here’s a thread to explain the challenges we’ll tackle this week. 🧵 /1
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⚡️ Electricity

☀️ Solar thermal

🪨 Geothermal/heat recovery

⛰ Heat pumps

🏭 Industrial heat recovery

🗑 Waste incineration

🪵 Biomass

🔥 Biofuels

🅷 Hydrogen

But all of them present significant challenges…

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⚡️ Electricity

Would require all existing radiators & pipework to be removed/replaced, & double pressure on the grid which is esp challenging when usage in peak periods creates instability.

This is an expensive way to do it & could lead to a x3 increase in heating bills. /3
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