"Green" policies are destroying this country

he's full of sh*te, he signed up to a methane reduction agreement at the last COP then came home and said it didn't apply to Ireland

What has that got do with an idiotic Irish Green Party plan to cull up to 1.5M. cattle here for the sake of global emissions , and an equally idiotic report by so called experts that seem to believe we are living in a biosphere, when Brazil alone is increasing their cattle numbers by 6.5M ?

Or do you believe we should follow the green ideology on farming organically seeing how well that worked for Sri Lanka when they tried it.

never heard of a plan to cull 1.5m cattle and don't know anything about Sri Lanka or organic farming. But do you not think we should try to be more food secure by diversifying what we produce?

I have no interest in energy security? What makes you think that?

I never said organic farming was the way forward either nor am I a member of the Green Party lol.

Anyway I'm not sure culling 1.5 or even 5 million cows in Ireland would affect our food security given its all exported.

Lots of people are in favour of banning smoky fuels, especially in urban areas where their voter base is, so some annoyed one-off-housers isn't really going to bother their voters.

It's a bit of a stretch to blame the green minister for the refugee problems, it was the Taoiseach who said there'd be no limits on how many are taken in, and FF/FG have the housing situation in the mess that it is in, not the Greens.

What's wrong with extending the bike to work scheme to cargo bikes? I see loads of people these days bringing their kids to school in them.

They are accumulating negative publicity by the cargo bike load, rural people are up in arms, alot of urbanites are just 1 or 2 generations from the land so it will affect their vote, transfers will be not forthcoming as easy as they were.

Like it or not O'Gorman is the public face of the refugee crisis,first and foremost the public will remember his utterances when it comes to an election.

You see lots of people in London on cargo bikes you mean, not so much here but if people want to use them fine by me.Unfortunately Ryan sees them as a replacement for vans to be used by delivery workers,tradespeople, and couriers🤣 like I said pie in the sky.

All that and still ignoring that Sri Lanka before implementing green organic farming theory was self sufficient in their most basic primary source of food, rice, which had to import just to keep people alive after implementing green policy. One of their largest sources of foreign income, tea also suffered drastically along with the welfare of those involved.

Even Sri Lanka`s own agricultural research institute based on years of research warned that yield from organic farming would be catastrophic, But hey why worry about that when you are the leader of a country running around COP beanfests with your begging bowl looks for lotsa cash when you can run the livelihood of your people to impress.

Organic farming does not produce anywhere near the yield per acre conventional farming does. It`s a myth and just further madcap green ideology from a group where the vast majority have not grown anything other than weeds in their lives.

Pretty sure it was Pippa Hackett, herself a farmer, that wanted 20% of farming to be organic in Ireland by 2030. Not sure anyone suggested all farming to be organic. I would have thought 20% of the land being organically farmed isn't a bad thing for nature and biodiversity.

I'm fine with the cargo bike if people choose to use them, but we all know there wo'nt be a choice, it will be forced on us.

You have a poor opinion of rural people, just like all the greens, rural people have the least access to public transport and a dependency on turf due to being economically disadvantaged, most turf burning is in the more deprived areas of the west and south west.Recently the greens have set about making the rural populace the bogeyman in the the climate change debate, who will be next I wonder, trades people with their diesel vans?

The greens will lose out because once again they are incompetent, blundering amateurs but you never know what will transpire,Mary Lou did'nt rule them out for a coalition.😯

You havent a clue, have you.In a previous thread you could'nt count the number of windows and doors in typical 3 bed semi, yet you expect trades people like plumbers.,carpenters, brickies, and others to put the tools/materials that they use to earn a crust into a cargo bike and cycle from job to job,🤣 ye greens are for the birds.Its hilarious but worryingly I know ye lot are serious.😕

Organic farming is a niche market, and much like those other loves of greens, heat pumps and retrofitting etc, all well and dandy for those that can afford it. Interesting you should mention 20%. That was the drop in yield for Sri Lanka`s staple crop of rice in just the first 6 months. Having been a member of IOFGA for a number of years, that percentage would tally with my experience of growing food organically.

Worldwide the yearly consumption of wheat grain is around 800 million ton and we were told that people would starve because 20 million could not be exported from Ukraine due to Russia`s war. That is just 2.5% of total yearly consumption, so you do the maths on how many would starve worldwide with 20% lower yields by following green ideology on growing food organically. Great for nature and biodiversity. Not so good for mankind in general.