"Green" policies are destroying this country

Interestingly it only took about 10 years from the discovery of nuclear power till they had a nuclear power station running. If it was only discovered this year they'd be humming and hawing over it for another 30 before they'd actually try to build one.

We should buy more Chinese solar panels and electric cars in order to reduce the price of coal / oil so the Chinese can burn more of it

Yes he had a big old diesel with a big boot. He was able to take his bicycle out of it around the corner from Dail Eireann and cycle in through the front gate looking like a real planet-saver.

Lets see what would happen over here if the tree huggers tried to block stressed motorists on their journey to work, something these dirty crusties know very little about.

Climate change needs to be addressed, nobody denies that but pissing ordinary working people off isn't the way to go about it.

And thats all the Greens in this country do is piss people off, some of the guff ryan has come out with is laughable, and thats when he is not asleep when he sould be working.

Someone should do a body count of how many lives were lost in this country with the Greens promotion of the diesel car through tax cuts.

Did I say in the post they didn't sign us up to it, you must be mixing me up with another poster or else you seem to think I'm a FF/FG voter with is also incorrect.

What I actually was doing was pointing out the stupidity of blocking roads and how Ryan is clueless about life outside the M50, you aren't going to bring the people with you by making ridiculous comments which he does, hell even half his own party have no confidence in him.

I wouldn’t like to be a member of the Green Party by the end of this winter

they should stay in the comfort of the middle class dinner party set waffling on about their fears for the environment because they are so comfortable and bored in their own existence that they have fcuk all else to worry about

the devil makes work for idle hands

Well this thread is useful. It easily identifies all the brain dead boardsies

its gas, the slight prospect of power cuts are ‘ruining Ireland’ but people who warn about consequences from climate change are all alarmists

ireland should have been preparing for the transition to carbon neutral energy for decades, but people like the OP and everyone who thanked it are the reason why we got nothing but denial and Empty rhetoric, leaving us with a mountain to climb in a very short time

Few people will admit, but I suspect the thought process for many of these you allude to is 'I've 40-50 years left, I don't give a fcuk about what problems may impact anyone who isn't me.'

Unfortunately it is a even a shorter timespan for politicians who have a choice being doing something meaningful or ignoring it so as to not impact future election chances.

Yeah. This is why a potential short term bread shortage today is headline news that sparks panic buying and fights in shops, but a potential inability to grow enough wheat to feed everyone in the future is barely a consideration

Did David mcWilliams or Boris Johnson tell you that?

Green policies are good for prodigy Pascal's bank account. Think of all the tax generated by the hike in electricity prices, the "carbon" tax, tax on car emissions

And if anyone dares complain he'll flick up his nose and talk down to the lot of us and give us his buzz phrases like "We're investing in our future", "We all have to do our part" "Nobody said going green would be cheap".

Aand then everyone votes them back into power in the next election. (even though we only vote for them so socialists Sinn Fein don't get in. Christ we're fkd no matter what)

I'm not getting this at all.

China has a population of 1.4bn.

How is it going to halve in the next 29 years? Even if there wasn't another child born in China for the next 29 years, surely those figures still aren't going to happen?

But if China stops being a global power, where are we going to get our cheap plastic tat from?

Why do people who think they care about the environment think that Nuclear is the answer? The only technology that has rendered parts of the earth uninhabitable is NUCLEAR! Nuclear produces elements that don't exist in nature and are extremely poisonous!

Civilian Nuclear power began in the 1950s and has so far produced several "exclusion zones" around the world contaminated by nuclear materials. Chernobyl, Fukushima, Mayak etc. Thats in just 70 years! Think long term....say 1000 years or 10,000 years of nuclear poison being released into the environment, how much of the planet will be poisoned by then?

Even the most modern nuclear power plant on the planet i.e. the French designed Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in China has already had an accident and it's not even working 3 years! https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20210614-french-nuclear-firm-investigates-possible-leak-at-china-s-taishan-epr-plant-framatome-energy-radioactive-safety

Ireland should not build a nuclear power plant. Ireland should produce as much renewable energy as possible while continuing to use fossil fuels until somebody comes up with a reliable, safe, nuclear reactor, that doesn't produce any hazardous waste, then we should change...

Nuclear when done properly produces zero waste compared to fossil fuels...

The current technology is miles ahead of the Soviet stuff, the Japanese plant was built in a poor location...

We need to

+reduce population (worldwide)

But that's not gonna happen

Sorry should have said "practically zero"...

I'm afraid that doesn't get them off the hook.

First, not all the car makers falsified the tests. Quite irrelevant of who did or did not, that particular scandal had little to do with environmental concerns. It was always known that NOx was a human health concern, but not particularly an environmental one.

The Greens focussed only on CO2 emissions due to its greenhouse impact. So if they did get the best advice about diesel, it would have included the then well known concerns about NOx. They either minimised those, or ignored them entirely, because there is simply no way they weren't part of the overall science their policy people would have had access to.

This is not solely a Green party induced problem, almost the entire Irish political spectrum is involved. Bertie Ahern signed us up to the Kyoto protocol in 1997 and Enda Kenny signed us up to the Paris agreement in 2015. The Irish political establishment take their orders from the EU, the Greens are just the convenient whipping boys, Sinn Fein are just as bad and much more woke. It goes much deeper the education curriculum is supplied by NGOs such as An Taisce who along with Trocaire, Friends of the Earth and Stop the Climate Chaos are all tied it with the international Climate Action Network NGO (Greenpeace, Oxfam and many more), the media just pump out clickbait turning every weather event into climate catastrophes and professors such as John Sweeney in Maynooth University use computer models based on scenario RCP 8.5 to project disaster in the future. This childs diagram drawn by Lorna Gold of Maynooth University is a representation of the different RCP scenarios. RTE regulaly put out climate propaganda and their style guide is taken from a US based activist organisation. And you are surprised that the electorate is so compliant?