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Sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Photo: Getty

Sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Photo: Getty

Net-Zero Dads. That’s what The Economist dubbed the middle-aged men who obsess over how their heat pumps, electric cars and solar PV panels work.

Indeed, sharing the jargon-filled specs of your favourite climate toy with your neighbours is the new ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. If your next-door neighbour has a Volkswagen ID4 powered for pennies at night by your PV panels, chances are you’ll want to follow suit.