Do you believe climate change is the most urgent global emergency

I think it is a real issue and I think it is a problem. However, I also think it gets rammed down everyone's throat a bit too much. There is no harm in everyone doing their bit, but it does not stop the sale of big 4 wheel drives and new mobiles every year. I think it more often then not gets abused as a stick to hit everyone with. It kind of appears similar to the power which Religious Clerics and Zealots had in the middle ages. They had the almighty power of "God" and if you did not believe them you were condemned to hell, you could be burnt at the stake for not believing in the bible, it happened.

It is all a bit hazy, the science.... and we will not really know the repercussions of the current human footprint for centuries to come?

As a species humans have evolved dramatically in the last 100 years or 3-4 generations. I can walk out the door and drive to a local Mickey Dees and buy my dinner from out my side window whilst talking into a metal perforated box, I can then eat that "meal" and throw the rubbish into a plastic bin which gets collected and dumped into landfill somewhere out of sight. My grandparents would be shocked by it. They had to grow their own Veg or they didn't eat, that is not that long ago? The world is tiny now, I can be in a nightclub in Cape Town by midnight, that journey used to take over a month 100 years ago. I think a greater threat to the human race is how we might be dropping the ball on how resourceful we are.

It also goes too far, chastising dairy farmers over methane from cow shight is too much of a stretch for me? Bovines have been shighting all over the planet for millions of years, all of a sudden some Danish professor announces that cow shight is killing the environment and every livestock farmer ends up in hardship, something is not adding up for me on that one? It is not unlike the clerics of the 15th century calling out heretics from the pulpit.

But that being said I think that humans are robust and natural survivors. Yes there will be problems with Global warming, but we will adapt and persevere. Life is not a disaster movie, it is a great gift and privilege, go and enjoy it.

I still struggle to comprehend how 3rd millennium cow shight is producing more methane than the cow shight dropped by their ancestors over the centuries? Surely manure dropped 300 years ago was just as detrimental to the environment as manure produced by modern cattle? This is what the scientists have gotten over the line, did no one question this, or are we not allowed to?

I also doubt very much that Ireland's carbon footprint is of any significance on the global scale of things? I can only imagine that measures taken by the 6 million people on the island are merely token efforts when compared to the industrial carnage being raged in developing Africa, India, China or say the Philippines? I respect that it is very noble of us to recycle and purchase 80k electric cars, but the reality is that we are literally a blip in the Atlantic ocean, they may as well ban sheep farming in New Zealand.

What fuel is used to procure the lithium that is running those batteries? Lead acid, zinc air, nickel cadmium, lithium phosphate... be the hokey. The cringing reality is that you couldn't drive from one end of the country to the other without needing to recharge. What a shambles. I reckon they have as much future at the Betamax video, I said it first.