"Green" policies are destroying this country

Did you per chance read my post before jumping in to reply.

If you did perhaps you could point out where the EU Commissioner for Agriculture agreed with the Irish greens on culling over a million cattle here, something that would not make one iota of difference to glodal emissiona as Brazil alone are increasing their herds by 20X that amount ? Do we have some super-duper methane emitting bovines compared to the rest of the worlds bovines and if we do, is it a secret know only to Irish greens ?

Right now the EU Parliament, (especially after the Netherlands vote and EU elections coming around next year) are not that enamoured with green driven Eu packages. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development voted a total rejection of the proposed Nature Restoration Law because of what it would do to farming and thus food security.

Do you really know how global trade works ?

It operates on the basis that whoever produces what the market requires at the cheapest price gets the lions share. China and India know that with a combined population of close to 3 billion. Japan are also well aware of it with a population of 125 million. All three have told the world that when it comes to their economies cheap energy is their concern, not emissions. Far as they are concerned if the EU wants to shoot itself in the foot, similar to Irish green thinking on cattle just like Brazil, Argentina and Australia etc they are more than happy to take up the slack with emissions being the least of their concerns.

The hilarious part of all this green mumbo jumbo is that China has cornered the market for so much of this green tech loved by greens, and are predicted to corner even more of it using the dirtiest source of energy known to man, coal.

The Bible may say that the meek shall inherit the earth, but the reality is that meekness would just result in them being face down in it. A reality that has totally escaped Irish and EU greens when it comes to global trade, and both energy and food security..

I did read it. It made me smile. You forgot to remind us of those statistics I asked you about.

You think Europe should lead the a full speed headlong race to the bottom?

i am still waiting for practical alternative proposals for how global emissions can be reduced.

What’s ‘not nearly good enough’ about it, compared to treatment of a car factory or a meat processing plant or bauxite processing?

There are times your naivety has a certain child like innocence about it.

Brazil are past master of getting around the agriculture rules and regulation of others. Be it from brucellosis to FMD and everything in between by moving cattle from infected areas to uninfected areas. Often not even bothering to move the animals just the paper work on origin.

Even if the EU sent vets to sit on them it would make no difference. With world demand projected to increase by 14% between now and 2030, if the EU followed Irish Green Pary policy on culling cattle to reduce methane emissions there would be an even bigger gap in the market for the Brazilians, Argentinians, Australians etc. to fill and it would not make the slightest difference in reducing emissions.

It really does show the complete messed up thinking from greens at EU level. Just a few years ago the EU abolished milk qoutas as it was preventing EU farmers competing in the market place. Now greens somehow believe that farmers should blindly trust them on every mad scheme they come up.

what are you on about

You are just picking out statistics that are about everywhere else except the EU.

The sad story of a German coal plant is pure, irrelevant waffle really. The operation of this plant makes no difference whatsoever to overall global emissions as you well know.

I am still waiting for your proposals for reducing global emissions.

The lad in the story, what did his other girlfriends think?

That's not knew. Previously I lived in a 4th floor apartment in Athlone. Could never get insurance because the place was deemed a flood risk. 4th floor I was on! The complex was built on a flood plain. I guess though if the rewetting targets go ahead then the people in there now will have to move out and let the waters back in. Can't see that going down well.

Plenty of bogs around Athlone. Down Clonown direction and across towards Ballinasloe. Otherside of town behind Blyry. No one knows where will be rewetted yet. Word is state land, primarily peat land. Lots of that in and around Athlone

I really am beginning to believe you have serious comprehension difficulties. Where in that story was there any mention of the lad having other girlfriends ?

Gemany back mining and burning coal and importing it from from the largest open-cast mine in Latin America covering an area of 69,000 hectares using 34 million litres of water daily to extract that coal and then shipped to Germany makes no differnece to global emission or has no environmental effect. Good to know. So why don`t we all go back to burning coal, buying it from Cerrejon, colloquially refered to as "the Beast"?

Are you somehow of the opinion that the EU has it`s own biosphere where statistics from the rest of the world have no bearing on emissions ?

I`m also still waiting on realistic proposals from Irish and EU greens on reducing global emissions. THe EU can come up with all the rules and regulations they wish endangering energy security, food security, and it`s economies, but with governments representing close to 94% of the global population not particularly pushed they are just pissing into the wind. See my last post regarding Brazil, the EU and deforestation if you want an example other than coal burning.

You really do need to take a reality check on the likes of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Within it`s own borders the E.U regard biomass which supplies 60% of it`s "green energy" as carbon neutral. Something even you recognise as a con. It really does appear to be making China that supplies the EU with so much green tech sit up and take notice. Last year they permitted a further 106GW of coal burning power plants and for the first 3 months of this year more than it did for the whole of 2021.You might also care to take a look at the finding of Carbon Market Watch on corpoations use of net zero pledges. Their findings were that the amounted to nothing more than greenwashing where they were making "disingenuous net zero" and "carbon neutral" claims based on dubious emission practices rather than actual cuts.

As to the rest, we have been through this before so I don`t feel the need to go to the trouble of repeating it as you are already well aware that Of that four the two economic heavyweights are China and Japan. China is placing much more emphasis on nuclear than on renewables. Japan are also re-opening their nuclear plants and plan to add to them. An energy source you and some greens - not all as there is a growing awareness within the green movement of lifes realities - are totally opposed too.