"Green" policies are destroying this country

Exactly the conclusion I have come too, the greens are authoritarian and growing increasingly fascist. If they ever got any real power they would be dangerous.

Germany: "New enemies of the state are establishing themselves"

State preparing the police to go to war against their own people in Germany i.e. "the enemy within". The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is run by a coalition of the CDU and Greens. Mr. Reul is CDU. There is much unrest developing world wide and Green policies to restrict energy and food production are significant contributors. The policies have been in place long before 2022. The Irish government (FG/Labour) signed on with the EU to the Paris agreement in 2015, The "gilets jaunes" began in 2018, The Dutch farmers have been protesting since 2019, The Urgenda case succeeded in the Netherlands in 2019. Irish politicians declared a "climate emergency" in 2019. The lock downs started in 2020 and disrupted global supply chains, kicking off an inflation spiral, Sri Lanka banned fertiliser in 2021, Canadians truckers rebelled in 2022, the Russian invasion restarted in 2022. The price of fertiliser had already shot up prior to the Russian invasion. The green policies are continuing to restrict the use of fertiliser, energy and food production. It's not just the Green party, all the political parties are signed on to this. Prepare for more unrest.

You REALLY think that will lead to cheaper electricity prices? Really?? You don't think that the cost of all that investment plus profits would be recouped?

Leaving aside that the primary renewable here - wind - isn't a dependable or consistent source of energy, requiring still MORE investment.

It's a con. Just like the whole electric car fad it shifts the problem elsewhere - in that case to mines extracting the raw materials needed for the batteries, or the attempts to restrict European and Irish agriculture so the problem can be moved to South America and the further destruction of the rainforest.

Plus personally I don't WANT to give up the few luxuries and comforts I have so the local Greens can get the feelz while the likes of China, India, the USA and others do whatever they want. I work hard and I expect to have more to show for it than sore feet or the prospects of energy blackouts to look forward to because of their short-sightedness.

What`s not to get, that this green energy revolution was supposedly to give us low carbon, secure energy at an affordable price ?

It simply has not done that nor is there any indication that it will before Irish Green Party policy totally wrecks our economy beyond repair. Big business does not care if the energy they supply is "good" or "bad". They only care about the bottom line on their balance sheets. It`s not governments job to get into bed with big business to facilitate that, which is what has happened due to green policies on state price guarantees, marginal pricing and taxonomy. It`s their job to monitor big business on behalf of those that elected them.

The Irish Green Party have gone further than most in facilitating big business making gigantic profits from those policies, and now the birds are coming home to roost bringing possible blackouts with them.

On energy security not only have the Irish Green Party used strong arm tactics to facilitate these renewable energy companies by stripping away conventional energy supply to favour intermittent unreliable renewables that now leaves us staring blackouts in the face, they intend doing more of the same with yet more conventional plants while ignoring the warnings they have been given by our own energy regulator and have further exacerbated the problem attempting to ban LNG, banning exploration and hand sitting on permits. Rather than accessing and learning from this, for Irish greens it`s eyes closed, fingers in ears and drive on with the cart before the horse adding more expensive unreliable renewables with no idea of the expense involved with nothing but the hopium that some day that nobody knows when it will all work out.

The affordable price idea you have only to look at your electricity bill to see how that has worked out, and when we are guaranteeing a strike price for just on-shore and solar at the same level as U.K. nuclear it says all that needs to be said imo.

Who's preaching anything? It is a fact that we cant carry on consuming as is the planet is finite and become more and more polluted.

And why are people getting into people's personal living situations? A bit weird no?

I just think it's sad that people are trying to catch me out because they saw I was in a different country. The spirit of creepy Gozunda lives on.

If you are given a share of a cake and you eat 101% of that share you have a journey to makeif humans cause 1.4c of warming but the planet was in a cooling phase and would have cooled by.1c then the observed warming is 1.3c and humans caused 1.4c. greater than 100% of observed warming

They say lotteries are a tax on stupidity. Well looks like climate change is the new lotto except we're all being forced to pay for it.

You just have to laugh at how outrageous the media coverage is. Today they were showing ancient stone circles that revealed themselves in Spain due to low water levels - the narrative of course being "while this is interesting it shows how damaged our climate is"

Eh, no it doesn't. It shows us that hundreds/thousands of years ago the water levels were sufficiently low to allow people to build structures in places that are now normally submerged. 🙄

Also, weren't they saying that sea levels are rising at a dangerous rate? And that low lying countries would be under x meters by 20XX? They haven't peddled that in a while. Why are low water levels all of a sudden a big concern?

Much like they haven't peddled the 'hole in the ozone' story in a few years now. 'Global warming' becoming 'climate change' due to the gigantic freeze of 2010.

The whole thing is one big joke. And if it wasn't destroying our economy I would have the popcorn out and have a good solid laugh at all the dummies.

It's not my fault you don't get it. It's pretty simple