"Green" policies are destroying this country

It is interesting to dive into the history of mathusian thinking. In a nutshell: right leaning victorian England thinking that the earth could not sustain more than an x amount of people ie, indians and irish breeding like rats mainly opposed by the left. Then the environmentalists / the left took up the idea and ran with it (Ehrlig et al), new ecologists end of the 60s up to now. Their idea has been bankrupt for decades but people refuse to see it. It was good enough to attack the right wing for it back then until they used the very same idea for their purposes. And now they push it down people's throat.

Unfortunately the world is full of people who can’t stand Johhny up the road buying a shiney new car every few years or Maisey down the road heading off to Spain to her holiday home. A lot of people would love to see that stopped. It’s not just about the climate for them. Going by my experience anyway.

I'm simply pointing out that 'fewer humans and lower living standards' would be a truer Green message. But it's a very unpalatable idea to sell and get voted in on.

If people can't or won't see the adverse impact of the growing human population combined with the desire for high living standards, then they've got their heads well and truly stuck in the sand or up their holes.

Just wee Ireland here is a very different place in terms of above and bio diversity since I was a child in the 1960s & 70s. Big changes.

This windfall tax seems very strange.

So for the last few months there has been PR after PR release from the energy companies that they need to raise prices because of x,y,z...

And now we are introducing this windfall tax because they are making too much profit??

It is the kind of diversity i would like to see. But words do not have the meaning they used to have. In a post modern world everybody can say a word can mean anything they think it means. Or be anything they think they might be. Well, ok, from now on im an obese black vegan lesbian one legged tarzan in training for the olympics. Because i say so you have to, also call me that. No diversity for you..😁

exactly energy companies are saying we are only putting the prices up because the raw materials are costing us more. when actually they are hiking prices and making massive profits.

I suspect they are putting the prices up way ahead of prices ti make sure they are covered just in case and if it doesn't go up as high bingo record profits.

noticeable diesel is down 30cents at the pump from 2 weeks ago.

hmmm

There has been a lot of talk on a windfall tax, but a lot of foot-dragging and nothing much else.

A windfall tax would hit the renewable energy companies as it is meant to bring prices down. Applying it to fossil fuels when you are depending on them to keep the lights on, especially when previously attempting to screw them with a taxonomy policy, would only be counterproductive.

They greens realise that and know that when the massive profits now being earned by renewables are cut due to a windfall tax so will the incentive be for investment in their next great white hopes, offshore and hydrogen. On top of which to varying degrees both are much more precarious investments than onshore or solar.

I didn`t say it did. I said. "I can see why lowering the voting age to 16 would appeal to greens"

As that is all you could find in my post to niggle about, it looks as if you are very much of the same opinion.

After all the times it has been explained to you, you still do not have a clue on the marginal pricing policy.

It really isn`t complicated.