Climate Bolloxolgy.

And when will the people here realize the bullshit they have been fed by this government pandering to the greens just to hang on in power.

Unfortunately it's much much worse than that.

Just a couple of weeks ago the green party welcomed the move to introduce legislation to ban licences for all new natural gas exploration in Ireland and its territorial waters.

https://www.greenparty.ie/green-party-welcomes-immediate-ban-on-new-oil-and-natural-gas-exploration/

Meanwhile in Norway

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/norway-offers-offshore-licences-to-28-oil-gas-firms-amid-great-interest/

The threads aren't undermining a party, who are only in power a short while and have a sketchy track record on "good for the environment" from previous government spells (CO2 tax on cars for example). FF/FG are the main ones and they are no better/worse than the greens for climate related issues. Reason being is the lobby group is the same regardless of the politician.

Remember though, this is a farming forum. Farmers are going to be the ones to carry the can here for a lot of the issues. They are the only ones that can store carbon and can be carbon neutral. Every other industry is dependent on them. Yet the talk is that the carbon stored in land will be sold without the farmer benefitting, yet they must change their ways of working to increase that carbon.

There's no undermining here, but there is frustration that there is no joined up thinking and just a load of farmer bashing

Tbh the show is fcuked for a number of reasons. Everyone has a job to do but the problem with the current crowd is attempting to stop the the problem without having realistic solutions to the problem. Solutions which will have alternatives in place before price hikes etc, solutions which may not be perfect but have to be part of the equation, such as nuclear etc

In this case, Mr. Green Clown is Ciarán Cuffe

I agree with replacing ryegrass however multi species is fairly new, early signs are good but it’s unknown how long they last.

A study a few years ago showed a 500kg cow can cause more compaction than a 200HP tractor

Your going to get your wish re your preferred ideological method of farming on a scale you'd never of imagined this year , I sincerely hope your 100% correct in your fairyland scenario, but don't be surprised next winter/spring when the wheels come of world food supply on the back of putins war games, you'll be roaring for farmers to up their production and decrying food inflation and shortages, and you'll probably still be rambling on about mss, regenerative agriculture and how only if the fertilizer addicted farmers had changed their ways things would of been different....

In all honesty going forward, the short, sharp, shock that is going to occur with food inflation and shortages will rattle 1st world governments to such a extent, you'll see food production in the EU been linked back to coupled payments to encourage supply

Thats a big fail - Nuclear power is already coming in here via interconnectors and alot more will be coming in when that major new one to France gets built down in Cork. The EU is finally starting to smell the coffee on Nuclear and Gas supplies in recent months and the crisis in Ukraine will only accelerate that

There's so many things wrong with the way the green agenda is being implemented.....

Farmers appear to be the low hanging fruit while sacred cows graze peacefully elsewhere.....

How many of the casual eco warriors will give up the flights, pay what they should for food, stop ordering massive quantities of tat on amazon, stop the waste ofelectricity on lighting up their place like singapore, realise that the if everyone pursued their suggested diet the place would be poisoned with chemicals in order to meet yield requirements and if it wasnt even larger areas would be ploughed ,poison everything green in sight on their own doorstep in pursuit of tidiness etc etc etc

The ignorance and/or hypocrisy can be stunning.

My message would be simple, pay for it, don't ask me to pay for while I slave away producing food for you and get treated with disrespect into the bargain. If you can pay for entertainment and plastic nik naks of questionable value then pay a fair rate for your food....if you want to campaign for something campaign firstly for the multiples to pass back a fair share of the profits they gain by squeezing the primary producer year on year so farmers can afford to cut production. Campaign for all the meddling to stop so producing in an environmentally friendly way is sustainable beyond a possible medium term blip brought about by high input prices....actually have a brain and engage in some joined up thinking ....this might have two benefits, it might stand a chance of working and you wouldn't be nailing the people that produce your food be it meat or vegetable to the floor while ignoring all the other just as significant if not more significant contributory factors.

I've seen some of the most passionate junior eco warriors locally not even able to pick up the litter they leave after them on the greenway.

Food Vision 2030 is dead in the water when you take account the current state of play in Eastern Europe, even the most risk adverse farmers be it beef/dairy etc the economics of it with where feed and fertiliser prices could soar to, will lead to herd numbers been slashed and a much more organic low input type of farming, adopted out of necessity rather then wanting to save the planet.....

Not that many years ago we were all organic. And the price of food matched the inputs and you could raise a family on a small landholding. And many people were self sufficient, although they were poor. We can easily all go organic, and easily reduce imports. What are you willing to pay for that?

And that hedgegrow one! Ha. How many kms are re-sown? Tree cover is increasing and it's not increasing in urban areas, but on farmland.

In NZ livestock numbers are 50% lower now than in the 70’s on 75% of the land base, in Ireland we’ve less stock on less land base too.

Methane is an issue and needs to be reduced, it’s 28 times more potent than CO2, but F gases are a bigger issue at 23,500 times CO2.