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Will the Green party vote damage the climate change movement?

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    #32
    nesf
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    Well my honest opinion is that over the next 5 years the Green's clothes will be stolen and we'll see a relatively detailed environmental policy put forward by each of the main parties. I think the Greens will die a death but green initiatives and policies look here to stay.


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    Húrin
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    nesf wrote: »
    Well my honest opinion is that over the next 5 years the Green's clothes will be stolen and we'll see a relatively detailed environmental policy put forward by each of the main parties. I think the Greens will die a death but green initiatives and policies look here to stay.

    And you know that as they go down they'll try to take all the credit for "introducing a new green paradigm into Irish politics".


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    oscarBravo
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    Húrin wrote: »
    And you know that as they go down they'll try to take all the credit for "introducing a new green paradigm into Irish politics".
    They may not deserve all the credit, but don't they deserve much of it?


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    Macha
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    nesf wrote: »
    Well my honest opinion is that over the next 5 years the Green's clothes will be stolen and we'll see a relatively detailed environmental policy put forward by each of the main parties. I think the Greens will die a death but green initiatives and policies look here to stay.
    I think either they'll die a death or they will have to reinvent themselves as something more than just "The Green Party".

    I almost consider the existence of a Green Party a sign of how little sustainable thinking has permeated mainstream politics. So if this came to happen, as an environmentalist, I'd be quite happy.

    There might always be a fringe Green Party in most EU countries simply because there is an extreme idealistic fringe within the environmental movement. Hence, the talk of a split in the Irish Green Party.


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    #36
    nesf
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    taconnol wrote: »
    There might always be a fringe Green Party in most EU countries simply because there is an extreme idealistic fringe within the environmental movement. Hence, the talk of a split in the Irish Green Party.

    Yup. Mink farming ban reminded me of fiddling while Rome burned.


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