High home heating bills in UK increase deaths by fuel poverty-BBC

10/19/11, "Rising energy bills causing fuel poverty deaths," BBC

"Thousands of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty, according to an independent report.

Professor John Hills has called for a new definition of the problem, which focuses on people with low incomes driven into poverty by high fuel bills.

His report found that in 2004, fuel-poor households faced a shortfall of £256 to heat their homes and avoid poverty, but in 2009 it was £402.

Recent bill increases may make the problem worse this year, he warned....

There are 27,000 extra deaths in the UK each winter compared to other times of year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The report found most of this was due to cold weather.

That figure is one of the highest in Europe and worse than Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway and France.

The main cause of these deaths is respiratory and cardiovascular illness brought on by the cold, with lower outdoor and indoor temperatures each accounting for about half the total number of deaths.

Prof Hills then drew on a separate recent report, the Marmot review, which found that more than one-fifth of all additional winter deaths were directly attributable to lower indoor temperatures in homes that,

• on average, are among the coldest 25% in the country."...

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10/18/11, "Charity calls for help freeing up family homes," BBC

"Older people should be encouraged to move into smaller homes to help tackle the "housing crisis", a charity says.

The Intergenerational Foundation calls for tax breaks to encourage downsizing and help free up some of the estimated 25 million unused bedrooms in England."...

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Linked on the IF site: "Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations," FRFG
UN and Europe promote legal means to expedite transfer of living space, environmental resources, finances, and voice in government from seniors to young people.

UN has "Special consultative status" to a number of groups including:

"Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations," page 30

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"Ways to Legally Implement Intergenerational Justice"

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2/21/11, "Green economies for growth, urges UN," BBC

"Governments have a central role in changing laws and policies, and in investing public money in public wealth to make the transition possible," said Pavan Sukhdev, head of the

• UN Environment Programme's (Unep) Green Economy Initiative.

"Misallocation of capital is at the centre of the world's current dilemmas and there are fast actions that can be taken, starting literally today," he added....

UNEP defined a "green economy" as one that resulted in "improved human well-being and

• social equity..."...

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Getting rid of annoying seniors helps "to expedite transfer of living space" needed for "intergenerational justice" since younger persons are more deserving of larger living spaces. And "intergenerational justice" is served when socialized health systems in effect murder seniors by neglect. Euthanasia is good too because that gets old people and their sometimes annoying voting habits out of the way. ed.


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