"Green" policies are destroying this country

People are not triggered by these. People are triggered when they are taxed or their quality of life is reduced in this ridiculous futile exercise of saving the planet through only reducing emissions on the island of Ireland.

Ireland represents less than 1% of global emissions. Climate change is not picky, it does not discriminate on point of origin of CO2. Therefore it only works when the world reduces emissions. The narrative peddled by the Green Party and the green brigade would equate to the world striving to reduce emissions holding hands and Ireland not pulling their weight. This is simply not the case.

The current system of national emissions targets is also complete bullshit and should be scrapped. John the Irish farmer produces 1kg of beef and sells it to Saudi Arabia. John burns 1 litre of diesel driving his car, diesel that was extracted and refined in Saudi Arabia. The emissions for both these activities are attributed to Ireland. That is not fair to countries like Ireland.

The Green movement doesn't understand the difference between macro and micro impacts. The world emitted 37,000,000,000 tons of CO2 in 2019. Sure, cancelling the Tipperary Town bypass will save a few tons off that list because a handful of people mightn't want to drive from Limerick to Waterford to see their family because the traffic is offputting, so we'd be able to stave off armageddon for a few seconds when you crunch the numbers. But the effect this has on people in Tipperary is huge, vs the tiny impact on global emissions. And those are real people whose lives are affected, and they have every bit as much of a vote as anyone else in this country.

The Green movement also assumes that there is no such thing as trade, or offshoring. See the latest example of Brazillian woodchips being imported into Foynes and trucked to Offaly for burning. How does that make any sense? If we reduce our national herd for example, unless there is restrictions on beef consumption, we'll be importing beef, which the EU apparently want us to get from South America given their recent trade deal advances, which would potentially involved cutting down parts of the Amazon for beef farming. Is that really a win for Ireland? Or the world?

These "wins" for the environmental movement and the absolute clown show that is the Irish Green Party are what annoy people. I could go on. I do sometimes laugh at the posts on here such as "Wooo there's a road project in the south east being obstructed by the Green Party" as if that's some sort of win for anyone. But then that laugh fades as I remember that there are 3 people who actually believe this nonsense sitting at the Cabinet table.

By all means, bring on renewable energy, greenways, cleaner air, less tailpipe emissions, more wilderness, less pollution. But there are more effective ways to do it than taxing people and making life hard for them for no reasonable gain.

It is all about international co-operation but I don't see much of that. Global emissions are still rising. But I don't see how little old Ireland being the well behaved member of the class is going to cause the US, China, Australia etc to drastically reduce their emissions. If anything, what the Irish Green Party are aiming for will see other countries shy away from emissions reductions if people have a reduced quality of life.

Per capita emissions in Ireland are already half of those in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East etc. Even by Northern European standards we are doing quite well.

I'm not suggesting tearing up any rulebooks for accounting emissions. But I will say this as I have repeatedly said, if a large share of the Irish population feels hard done by because of this, it'll lead to the politics of anger, and who knows where that will end. And I think that if there's a prevailing idea that it won't lead to anger, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron can speak of otherwise when anger pollutes the political system and people en masse feel hard done by.

(I should state I'm not angry - it's 7:52pm where I am and I'm typing it as someone who's looking from the outside in, and I don't really think that Ireland should be following a policy of handicapping itself economically so we can earn some gold stars to show off at the next Conference of the Parties in whatever resort it's held in).

Given our high quality of life and our agri industry, that's quite good.

I won't quote the rest of your post but despite the 20 examples of international agreements you mentioned global carbon emissions continue to rise. Talk is easy but it appears action is not.