Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

Division and sniping at each other won't help us to address climate change.

Some well off people care, some don't. Some not so well off care, some don't.

The policies that will work need to ensure that all socio economic groups can be part of the solution.

It's actually 50% that are recycled and climbing, these are currently mostly phone, laptops etc.. car batteries will generally be used for static storage first before being recycled. A new car battery today probably won't be available for recycling until late 2030s at the earliest.

If the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine then we're all going to die of cold, starvation or flooding.

Doesn't matter what you think of EVs they are coming whether you like it or not. Don't see too many people commuting on horseback despite all the whinging when ice arrived.

Well they were Right according to a friends of the Earth report in 2010, pity they didn't look for a more recent figure. Not too many EVs (if any) at end of life in 2010.

Tubridy isn't a public servant. He's a private sector contractor.

They've a good income for sure, probably touching €200k in the house, but that wouldn't be my definition of filthy rich. Start talking to senior folks in banks or Google or Microsoft and see what filthy rich actually means.

You've been a tad selective in your quotes from that article. Why did you leave out the other bits, like

"She does, however, admit that there is a worrying trend in climate change on a global scale in the long term. "I talk about climate change in the book, and minimising your impact when you can," she nods. "Every choice that we make counts - like, today, for example you chose a glass of water, rather than buying one of those bottles which we so instinctively reach for every time," she says, pointing to my now-empty glass. "Some marketing genius back in the 1990s decided to tell us to buy these plastic bottles of water, and we did; and we never used to. People managed to survive very well drinking tap water for a long, long time - and now there's how many, a billion of those plastic bottles on the planet? It's depressing. But I think David Attenborough did a really good job of highlighting the dangers of plastic over the last year or two and now everybody is starting to be a bit more aware of their actions - at the supermarket, at home, wherever.""

And if you're deciding what a person was thinking 10 or 20 years ago based on their Twitter feed of three years ago, you might be looking in the wrong place.

Maybe it would help move things along if you could clarify up front what particular standard of ideological purity your require from someone to not be sniping and picking holes? How long does a person have to have been living in the forest off fresh spring water and leaves for you to actually listen to what they say instead of coming up with petty arguments to distract from the message?

Claires about to rock up with her mock up. Must be Monday night in Montrose!

There was a twang of the Visitors from V off him.

Was that Dr darth vader?

Carbon taxes will give you another kick up the hole in October.

So basically it was easy to tell.

Really farcical piece, 10 minutes wasted on watching 'celebs' eating hot dogs.

Id say the IFA will be typing up an angry letter to RTE now as well over this promotion of veganism, there is no balance on the segment whatsoever

edit, finally some balance, albeit only for a minute

It makes absolutely no sense for us to be paying EU fines for emissions and additionally paying carbon tax on fuels while at the same time exporting meat to the UK so someone can have a £1 cheeseburger.