Stop yammering about this shit and let us create tropical beaches near Dublin so we can enjoy umbrella drinks!!!
Disgraceful Joe
We have no long term climate goals.
Green Party manifesto is shut down old power plants. Build cycle lanes but little else. And just hope stuff works out.
We are not going backwards, it is just we have a growing country and the climate goals dont allow for population growth
Data Centres
Why are we still granting planning permission for these…
Is there anything to be said for another tax?
“Best we can do is some party squabbling and flinging feces” – Fine Gael.
we should not make long-term promises we know we can’t keep when there are more immediate and serious issues to be addressed
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Sure look be grand
Ireland was a purely agrarian society for many centuries, then a few of us bought computers. We skipped the dirty industrialization of the 19th and 20th centuries that the rest of Europe embraced. With the exception of the Belfast shipyards, there has never been heavy industry in Ireland. Our country has very little legacy pollution, unlike places such as London and Berlin. Our soil and water are much cleaner than virtually anywhere else, with the possible exception of Iceland, but you might fall into a volcano up there.
Well what do you expect when we’re going backwards on everything else too.
Most of it is farming, Europe needs us to provide high quality food more efficiently than any other country in the world bar NZ, leave us to it. Instead they will import the meat from Argentina and Brazil where they are cutting down the rainforest and are nowhere near as efficient as us.
So more and more taxes down the line nothing new their.
I’m living in Chicago and the absolute lack of a fuck to be given for pollution is insane. I could argue we’re not doing enough, but we’re doing well enough compared to America.
Also, don’t multinationals generate like 70% of all pollution world wide?
I think Covid was a good indicator of how the climate crisis will go. We have zero chance of success unless some really smart people can invent a mircle pill.
The article does not mention agriculture, which is the main obstacle to achieving our emissions targets. Simply put, we need to reduce the number of cattle in this country, both from beef and dairy.
We produce far more than we need, the majority is exported to mainland Europe and further overseas. Therefore, the emissions count in our national total, but we’re not actually consuming the produce here.
The agricultural lobby is very strong. It will take brave politicians to stand up to that lobby when making the necessary emissions reductions. For the sake of all of us, I hope they face up to the lobby, whoever is in power. It’s all too easy to kick the can down the road, but we need to act now
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Maybe ya dense cabbage we want it to warm up!
Stop yammering about this shit and let us create tropical beaches near Dublin so we can enjoy umbrella drinks!!!
Disgraceful Joe
We have no long term climate goals.
Green Party manifesto is shut down old power plants. Build cycle lanes but little else. And just hope stuff works out.
We are not going backwards, it is just we have a growing country and the climate goals dont allow for population growth
Data Centres
Why are we still granting planning permission for these…
Is there anything to be said for another tax?
“Best we can do is some party squabbling and flinging feces” – Fine Gael.
we should not make long-term promises we know we can’t keep when there are more immediate and serious issues to be addressed
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Sure look be grand
Ireland was a purely agrarian society for many centuries, then a few of us bought computers. We skipped the dirty industrialization of the 19th and 20th centuries that the rest of Europe embraced. With the exception of the Belfast shipyards, there has never been heavy industry in Ireland. Our country has very little legacy pollution, unlike places such as London and Berlin. Our soil and water are much cleaner than virtually anywhere else, with the possible exception of Iceland, but you might fall into a volcano up there.
Well what do you expect when we’re going backwards on everything else too.
Most of it is farming, Europe needs us to provide high quality food more efficiently than any other country in the world bar NZ, leave us to it. Instead they will import the meat from Argentina and Brazil where they are cutting down the rainforest and are nowhere near as efficient as us.
So more and more taxes down the line nothing new their.
I’m living in Chicago and the absolute lack of a fuck to be given for pollution is insane. I could argue we’re not doing enough, but we’re doing well enough compared to America.
Also, don’t multinationals generate like 70% of all pollution world wide?
I think Covid was a good indicator of how the climate crisis will go. We have zero chance of success unless some really smart people can invent a mircle pill.
The article does not mention agriculture, which is the main obstacle to achieving our emissions targets. Simply put, we need to reduce the number of cattle in this country, both from beef and dairy.
We produce far more than we need, the majority is exported to mainland Europe and further overseas. Therefore, the emissions count in our national total, but we’re not actually consuming the produce here.
The agricultural lobby is very strong. It will take brave politicians to stand up to that lobby when making the necessary emissions reductions. For the sake of all of us, I hope they face up to the lobby, whoever is in power. It’s all too easy to kick the can down the road, but we need to act now