"Green" policies are destroying this country

One of the Greenies was on VM1 last night saying everyone should retrofit thir houses over the next few years, easy for her to say that when she earns 100 k a year.

We are going to be sending 200 million a year over to tin pot corrupt countries according to Mickey Martin to help them with climate change, more in his line to spent that money on his own over taxed citizens to fund the cost of this retro fitting they want us to do.

I'm not a SF voter but Mary Lou was on afterwards and made the valid point that hammering all of us with carbon taxes over the next 10 years isn't really the way to convine the people to change the way we do things.

This COP26 meeting has taken posturing and posing to a new level.

One by one the sheep take to the podium to give their little speech and preach to the pheasants with their private jets outside.

All out giving interviews to their local media stations telling them how much they have achieved and how well things are going.

Meanwhile, the biggest polluters in the world are sitting at home laughing their heads off at them.

People need to wake to fook up to what these clowns are up to.

Yep, just like the homeless crises, big business nowadays,

When faced with a global environmental crisis, you think the distorted version of what you believe one man 'wants' is the most important thing to talk about.

Interesting

If there was a ELE Asteroid proven to hurtling towards the earth, that we know will hit us and cause global devastation within the lifetimes of our children, would you waste decades complaining about who has to pay the taxes to build the mission to save the planet????

Probably, yeah, that sounds about right.

I agree, we need public buy in, and we cannot allow the idea that environmentalism is just about raising taxes to become so entrenched.

I think every carbon tax should be revenue neutral, and offset by direct grant payments to citizens so that money raised in carbon taxes are returned to the people.

We will need investment on top of this, and this should be funded by government borrowing and ECB instruments that finance both European and LDC infrastructure requirements to adapt and mitigate climate change.

The costs of not acting are many times higher than the costs of acting now, so in the long term, any arguments that borrowing is a burden on future tax payers is completely reversed.

Not investing now is a much bigger burden on future tax payers as the costs of not limiting climate change have been known to be much higher than the costs of preventing it

Having Uranium is no good on its own, it has to be reprocessed into nuclear fuel. Which Ireland can't do, or safely transport uranium to a reprocessing facility

My main point is that Nuclear as it currently operates, is not suitable for a market of 2 million households + limited industry

Not to mention the costs and time scales associated with building a Nuclear power station from scratch with no infrastructure. We wouldn't be getting anything online before 2050 if we tendered for it starting today

Where can we build a nuclear power plant that won't be caught in a planning quagmire for decades?

Its taken that long just to build some inert pylons and agree a route for interconnectors and high density power lines

If we had started this discussion in 1990 it might gave made sense, but back then, cause of all the 'skeptics' the 'debate' was still being derailed by nonsense about whether climate change was even real (despite the overwhelming consensus of scientific studies agreeing that it was already a crisis)

The big population growth is projected in Africa, 1bn in Nigeria alone by then.

Not much good paying Mary and Joseph to get sterilised when Africans are having 5+ children per head.

The Eamon Ryan /Joan Burton school of economics.

Don't limit the migrant numbers. We can build 2 million more social houses.

Peter Sutherland was at it too when he was alive and Geldof is still at it. Shouting from their Ivory towers in London.

"Bring 'em all in."

We have too many politicians with their heads up their asses.

Does Ryan not realise that in order to build those social houses, the countryside is going to have to be concreted over? Very green. 🙄