Thank god, “climate change” shouldn’t be prioritised until other countries give two shits about it. Why should Irish people pay exorbitant carbon taxes when China and India couldn’t give a fuck?
The lifting of planning restrictions on domestic solar panels has taken years, and just when it was about to get across the line they’ve sent it off for public consultation. It’ll be another 2 years before it’s done. Everything in this country takes forever. Too many committees making decisions at the speed of treacle.
Well considering the fact that Europe is goin back to burning coal. And now the EU oh so graciously decalered Gas & Nuclear as “Green”. I don’t think we’re gonna feel too bad if we’re not living up to these obsolete targets.
Ah ye olde blaming agriculture.
1. If the food is not produced here it will be produced elsewhere, namely Brazil. If they need more land to make more food guess what they will do? Burn the rainforest. Nevermind all the growth hormones and environmental cost of shipping food across an ocean.
2. Obviously we will produce a disproportionate amount of emissions when we are a exporter, the countries who import the food should take the blame for the carbon cost.
3. The average farmer is not wealthy and works far more hours than anyone else, easily in excess of 40 hours a week. Many have second jobs to make ends meet and I know for a fact my father and also my uncle would earn more money by quitting farming and just taking a salary. Any reduction in livestock income will need to either be reimbursed through further subsidies (perhaps grants to convert farms to “organic” farms which get more yearly subsidies and limit cattle counts) or the agricultural economy will collapse and unemployment will increase.
4. Cattle are inherently carbon neutral, you can’t just create carbon from nothing. Fossil fuels obviously are taking it from deep underground but cattle just eat grass and nothing more. Grass grows, it takes in carbon as part of that process. It’s a cycle.
Sure there is a sort of methane bank and it’s more harmful per tonne, but it is constant in size and it will be the same now as it is 100 years from now (given cattle population stays the same). Global warming is primarily countered by stopping the compounding factors (fossil fuels) everything else doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Humans are responsible for 3% of GHG emissions, 97% of emissions are just normal parts of nature and are not necessarily bad.
Obviously that 3% is bad, but people complaining about cows is just… stupid.
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Thank god, “climate change” shouldn’t be prioritised until other countries give two shits about it. Why should Irish people pay exorbitant carbon taxes when China and India couldn’t give a fuck?
The lifting of planning restrictions on domestic solar panels has taken years, and just when it was about to get across the line they’ve sent it off for public consultation. It’ll be another 2 years before it’s done. Everything in this country takes forever. Too many committees making decisions at the speed of treacle.
Well considering the fact that Europe is goin back to burning coal. And now the EU oh so graciously decalered Gas & Nuclear as “Green”. I don’t think we’re gonna feel too bad if we’re not living up to these obsolete targets.
Ah ye olde blaming agriculture.
1. If the food is not produced here it will be produced elsewhere, namely Brazil. If they need more land to make more food guess what they will do? Burn the rainforest. Nevermind all the growth hormones and environmental cost of shipping food across an ocean.
2. Obviously we will produce a disproportionate amount of emissions when we are a exporter, the countries who import the food should take the blame for the carbon cost.
3. The average farmer is not wealthy and works far more hours than anyone else, easily in excess of 40 hours a week. Many have second jobs to make ends meet and I know for a fact my father and also my uncle would earn more money by quitting farming and just taking a salary. Any reduction in livestock income will need to either be reimbursed through further subsidies (perhaps grants to convert farms to “organic” farms which get more yearly subsidies and limit cattle counts) or the agricultural economy will collapse and unemployment will increase.
4. Cattle are inherently carbon neutral, you can’t just create carbon from nothing. Fossil fuels obviously are taking it from deep underground but cattle just eat grass and nothing more. Grass grows, it takes in carbon as part of that process. It’s a cycle.
Sure there is a sort of methane bank and it’s more harmful per tonne, but it is constant in size and it will be the same now as it is 100 years from now (given cattle population stays the same). Global warming is primarily countered by stopping the compounding factors (fossil fuels) everything else doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Humans are responsible for 3% of GHG emissions, 97% of emissions are just normal parts of nature and are not necessarily bad.
Obviously that 3% is bad, but people complaining about cows is just… stupid.