"Green" policies are destroying this country

A cod like the entire green agenda in general?

Anything with the green stamp on it is little more than financially interested groups manipulating the gullible. Doesn't take much digging to see most green initiatives are environmentally worse but may have better optics. "Screw all those in South America, people need to see me here driving my EV"

Ya do know that petrol market share is growing right?

Market share 2022 vs. 2023

Petrol 27.04%, 32.85%

Diesel 25.83%, 22.34%

Hybrid 24.56%, 17.44%

Electric 12.51%, 16.66%

Plug-In Hybrid 7.56%, 7.9%

Of course. Why are you so fixated on farming?

My petrol car is as green as I ever plan to get, if I can help it. Large, comfortable and fantastically boring family saloon, Octavia 3-cylinder 1.0 litre turbo automatic, 50 mpg with the air con running, in the lowest CO2 category. It's all I want in a car: gets reliably from A to B, with decent entertainment spec (touch screen / Android Auto for my anti-Green pro-nuke energy podcasts). Beats the hell out of burning Brazilian woodchips to generate electricity to power a massive Chinese-made lithium battery and still having to live with range anxiety (if you can even charge it after the Green's have decimated our grid infrastructure).

I find it hard to believe that almost half of Italian people would support legislation telling them what they can and can't have for breakfast or dinner. Even the 24% of UK supporting it seems to high. How could any kind of legislation stop you from eating a ham sandwich 4 times in a week instead of 3 anyway?

If you were to rephrase the question to "what do you expect others to do to combat climate change" In typical green fashion the results would be flipped - everyone else should pay more fuel tax, more on air fares, plant less trees (they only take up space for bus lanes)

Ah ya are fixated now. Every post is anti farming. Also, every industry is propped up by taxpayers. Even energy. How much has the government paid off your electricity bills? Or all the grants for retrofits and solar etc. Or the tax breaks for companies. Or putting in infrastructure to entice businesses to open in areas. Ya get me. The government prop up everything as the money stays in the economy. They give with one hand, take with another.

Anyway, time to channel my inner DaCor and dump a few links. First up is that agriculture have hit 90% of their targets in Q1, more than any other department (ironically enough including the department for the climate or whatever it's called).

Even the department weren't expecting the uptake from farmers in the schemes. Maybe @BlueSkyDreams could acknowledge that his "climate enemy" are more engaged than anyone else.

Next up, an interesting one on the costs. Only 4 EU countries have the money to increase spending on climate actions to meet their Paris agreements. The EUs fiscal poilicies in relation to debt are the problem here. Countries will have to borrow, but under the rules many aren't able. The key take away here is that debt is going to finance the green revolution

Any finally, Greenpeace who I'd have very little time for have said that public transport in Dublin is a shambles when it comes to pricing. This paragraph was interesting as it showed that the common person is just not given a thought. Tax them to the hilt but let other business off (I'm looking at aviation really here which is a total joke it isn't taxed)

I`m afraid that is exactly what it means.

The OECD - FAO Agricultural Outlook Report 2021 - 2030 is projecting an increase of 14% in global meat consumption by 2030.

While the Irish Green Party and their supporters are looking for a decrease of 1.3 million head of Irish cattle, Brazil alone is increasing their herd numbers by 24 million to fill this demand, while cutting and burning rainforest to do so. For 2021 the E.U. imported meat to the value of €396 millon from Brazil. Same for Argentina. In total 80% of the value we exported to the E.U.for the same year.

I often wonder does the Irish Green Party and their supporters somehow believe we are living in our own little biosphere, or is it that they believe Irish cattle are somehow unique globally when it comes to emissions, because when it comes to carbon footprints and global emissions I cannot see any other explanation.

What other industry receives billions in subsidies?

And judging by your remarks below, is an industry that has no drive or concern whatsoever to offset emissions and reduce the climate impact of their industry.

Granted, there have been other farmers here who have acknowledged climate targets and Agri's role in helping.

And where those people feel 25% is too large a reduction, they have said so and explained why.

Fair play and respect to those people and i am sure they will try their best to deliver positive results.

But for those of the opinion that Agri needs to do nothing on the emissions front and believe the whole climate thing is a big con, there will be a shock coming when subsidies start to reduce for those farms not doing their bit.

That approach will come, sooner rather than later.