"Green" policies are destroying this country

theres no question we need them, our modern economy couldnt function without them but, we really need to get serious about them, theres clearly serious problems in regards energy consumption and wealth distribution from their activities, these urgently need to be addressed, or.....

...but if we continue on a similar path, you can be damn sure it wont work, pointing fingers at other nations, is beyond stupid

Your response would have been a lot better if it was actually correct. There's nothing wrong with Aghada. It's WG1 at Glanagow that's out of service according to REMIT.

Fair enough , I should have said whitegate ... Slip of the tongue 😜, (currently looking at aghada , whitegate is behind me )

And I didn't even know Glanagow was the name of the townland ,

Incidentally if it's Wg1 ,is there a Wg2 ? Or is it just a code to allow for expansion ?

not at all, theyre just extremely short sighted, theyre a typical political party, theyve little or no connection to the average person

but if we dont decrease, more than likely, everyone keeps increasing, including ourselves

Look, this is all just absurd.

If we eat less meat we'll have to eat more crops. If we sow more crops that's more fertilizer and more CO2.

The only way we can substantially reduce CO2 is to eat less.

How do you propose we do that?

Yep, that's not much of a plan for starters. If it really were that easy we'd have done it by now.

Okay , this one I can answer ,

If you grow food and eat it you can get the benefit of All those calories ..

If you grow food and feed it to something else ( a cow , pig ,a chicken ,a salmon or a mushroom ) ,and then you eat that something else ( or its product in the case of milk or eggs ) , then you only get the calories there in ... https://tabledebates.org/research-library/feed-conversion-efficiency-aquaculture-do-we-measure-it-correctly

I think beef cattle are some where between 6 :1 ,and 10:1 , so if give the animal 6000 calories you should get aprox 1000, I have no idea is that to fork , a live thousand kg animal would probably only give you about 480 kg of a beef carcass , and there'd still be a lot of bone in that ...

On the other hand cattle should eat mainly grass, and we don't .. plus while cattle aren't very efficient at turning grass to meat , what they don't use (manure) should be returned to the field , so that helps ...

Pigs and chickens are way more efficient converters of feed - but they tend to eat more of the same things as we can , and it takes way more energy to cultivate harvest and process cereal crops then feed it to pigs or chickens ,and spread the manure , than to grow grass in a continuous pasture , let the cow out to eat it ,and deal with its own manure - ( cows need to be housed and fed in winter though)

Maybe someone already brought it up, I haven't read the thread, but what did people think should have happened when Fianna Gael, backed by Fianna Fail signed Ireland up to the Paris Agreement?

The greens are being used as a punching bag for people to decry any sort of action or initiative which may impact any element of their life. FFS, people are furious at Greta because she is daring to open her mouth without having a feasible solution to the entirety of the problem which will not impact the quality of life of anyone as it is implemented.

You either think there's a problem, and want to see change, or you don't believe there's a problem (or don't care about it) and don't. All the wailing and gnashing of teeth at the Greens we see on here tells me that it is likely to be the latter.

If people are worried about the policies 'destroying the country' have you missed the Governments where they went to court to try to make sure Apple didn't have to pay a tax bill of 13B, or when they told Perrigro that they could write down their tax bill by a 1.3B?

Nope...what we use is miniscule. You can go the whole per person thing but its nonsense.

Ireland could suddenly turn off all the power, stop all the cars , slaughter our entire herd , bring our emission rate to zero and it wouldn't even made a dent in emissions.

Until the big offenders are reined in the whole cutting emissions thing is nonsense.

But I firmly believe we're close to a cataclysmic collapse within the next 2 decades. If we don't achieve anything of note by 2030 the planet or more to the point humankind is screwed in the long term.

When China fired up more coal stations in 2020 than all the countries in the world combined then its farcical.

China is leading the world in new coal power plants, building more than three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined in 2020. It isn’t alone in its reliance on coal, however. China and four other countries, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam, account for more than 80% of the coal power stations planned across the world.

Now they are leading the world in renewable energy but that's just China....the rest are still miles behind.

Those two tax cases are very different. Perrigo were deemed to owe us tax by Revenue and a deal was struck. In Apple's case Revenue had already made the tax decision and that €13bn doesn't belong to us anyway. The court case is challenging our treatment of the income so naturally the government has joined it.

the wealth from such activities 'trickles down', so cant wait for my trickle down!

Window-box grown lettuce is up 700%

Floating is unproven, but throw enough subsidies at it and those claiming uit is brilliant will be happy

We now in the main consume what we ‘need’ food wise.... breakfast, lunch and dinner, odd snack... I don’t throw out much food, as I’d imagine most households don’t.. i don’t get stuff for the sake of it, that’s just wasting money.

the greens will want to reexamine their blight on this country and do something useful like tackling the root causes...Agriculture as per 2018 figures were responsible for 32.7 % greenhouse gas emissions in this country. Yet the agri sector simply does nothing but pay lip service to the environment and the issues it / we face...they refer to being called out on it as per their website ‘the blame game’... convenient. The greens are all but silent on this yet they are literally screaming at ordinary Joe Soaps to do more, pollute less and sacrifice greatly... so like every party in this country the greens instead of looking at business people and them fûcking up the environment for profit are maintaining their stance with the guns at the heads of the ordinary Irish person... if I drive a Rang Rover I’m the bad guy but the farmer next door with one it’s probably ok because.. “ ohh for work “

Really! That's nuts.

So roasted hazelnuts with Yorkshire pudding on Sundays then? Followed by some hazelnut ice cream. Oh wait, no we won't have any cream. Just hazelnuts then.