Dublin Airport and the climate emergency

With the huge climate emergency that is ongoing at the moment why is Dublin airport looking to expand now that it went ahead with the unnecessary and reckless runway.

Ireland has become the second country in the world to declare a climate EMERGENCY.

The decision was made after an amendment to a parliamentary climate action report was agreed by both the Government and the opposition. 

Climate change has been described as the greatest challenge facing humanity.

Do Dublin Airport realise There’s more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than any time in human history???

sensors at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii – which has tracked Earth’s atmospheric concentration of CO2 since the late 1950s – detected a CO2 concentration of 415.26 ppm. 

The last time Earth's atmosphere contained this much CO2 was more than three million years ago, when sea levels were several metres higher and trees grew at the South Pole. 

Scientists have warned that carbon dioxide levels higher than 450ppm are likely to lock in catastrophic and irreversible changes in the climate. Around half of the CO2 emitted since 1750 has been in the last 40 years.

The 2023 update is posted below in the thread - the situation is rapidly deteriorating.

So why do Dublin airport execs and the aviation industry in Ireland think they have been given permission to “carry on regardless” ????

They should be decreasing their activities there and not ramping up recklessly - at least, until there is carbon neutral aviation.

Every other sector is getting lectures day and night about becoming green this and green that. And no harm. It is an EMERGENCY.

The DAA on the other hand seem to think they can “do as we like”.

They are like the proverbial ostrich with its head firmly up its ass.

Fair play to Fingal Council and the locals for reminding DAA of their commitments and responsibilities recently.

https://www.thejournal.ie/fingal-county-council-orders-dublin-airport-reduce-night-flights-6134642-Aug2023/

As a start There should be NO night time flights after 22hr - can restart again at 7hr.

Even M O’Leary of Ryanair and the DAA fat cats must take heed of the climate emergency considering how bad things have got this summer worldwide.

The situation has rapidly escalated - indeed the UN has declared we are now in the realm of “global boiling”.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures

Grim projections abound.

The wrecked climate world that the children and grandchildren of today will inherit barely bears thinking about.

The DAA and the Irish aviation industry need to get in line and do their bit.