"Green" policies are destroying this country

I don't believe it's that deep. This class (by wealth) does not bear the consequences of their luxury beliefs. For people in these circles giving grants from their tax efficient foundations to eNGOs is mostly virtue signalling. It gives them a nice feeling they are saving the environment while continuing to travel first class and do what they always have done. Some like Mr. Michael Bloomberg have investments, that line up with their grants. In case you are scratching your head wondering how XR get away with blocking the general public, Extinction rebellion has money behind it. XR did not block private jets at COP26 in Glasgow, they blocked the public.

Take at look at the climate category in the grant portfolio for hedge fund billionaire Sir Chris Hohn, it's called the Childrens investment fund.

• CIFF - https://ciff.org/grant-portfolio/
• Oak foundation - https://oakfnd.org/grant-database/
• Hewlet Foundation
• Grantham foundation - https://www.granthamfoundation.org/philanthropy/

One organisation that stands out and shows up occasionally in Irish eNGOs accounts is the European Climate Foundation: https://europeanclimate.org/funding-grantmaking/

There is quite an industry there, you can use Linkedin, to observe the movements of personnel and relations between these organisations. If you do get a job with the eNGOs, you could be spending time writing grant applications.

That's not news. All 3 leaders in the coalition have been saying that for some time. They are right too - they should stay the course. They've been elected to do that.

The wishes of most here is for the Green Party to get no where near government again. I'd like it too. I don't think it would matter as government policy is driven by NGOs moreso than any politician or party. And there are lots of NGOs in bending the ear of those that are making the decisions. Whether the greens are there or not, very little will change though I suspect some of the more "wild" stuff may be put on the back burner, or existing commitments spread out over a longer timeframe.

If SF get in though, I've no idea the direction any existing policy will take

Plans change. Look at Germany who have the finance minister saying plans to shut coal may be pushed back

Or targets... well, moved. We've seen this played out for as long as politics have existed in anything remotely resembling a democracy for almost half a millennium now. If you think environmental targets won't be moved, watered down, timelines extended, etc... then you're fairly naïve.

Targets can change. Legal texts can change.

A Billion a year in fines is chickenfeed compared to how much it will cost if we don't mitigate climate change.

The severe flooding in Germany last year cost Germans over 40 billion from a single event

The cost of this year's flooding in Middleton will be hundreds of millions.

This is at 1.2c of warming. We're on track to triple that if countries fail to meet their commitments.

The skeptics always miss the downside costs of doing nothing. A strange form of amnezia.

You do not realise that the floods of 2022 are nothing compared to the floods of 2050 if we don't stop climate change.

You, me, us can't stop climate change. We can mitigate against it but to think we can stop the clinate changed is both niave and arrogant in equal measures.

We can reduce our impact, believing we can control it or even stop it, is the fantasy.

Since you are into balance sheets lately did you bother looking on the other side of the balance sheet? How much has all the nice weather saved us? How much is the extended growing season worth? how about the improved crop yields?, the global greening effect?. The fact is we like nice weather, and millions of people from northern Europe seek out the benefits of the sunshine and warmth by going to the Mediterranean region each year.

Bad weather does not equal climate change and these shysters cannot demonstrate that if the climate was static that these events would not occur, in fact the historical record shows these events have occurred in the past, with far more devastating consequences for people and animals. Alarmists can't even tell us what the temperature should be, nor how much taxes we must pay to control the weather. It is a fatal conceit.

Latest scaremongering from the Greens.

This is typical of an end of times cult, the above image has NO BASIS IN REALITY, there is not even science behind it. It is an artists (Jason Simons) impression derived from unskilled computer projections (RCP 8.5) from 2014, and it's been floating around the internet since 2017.

Meantime, observations at 4 different locations around Ireland show no detectable increase trend in sea level rise in the 21st century.

Desertification can be reversed using holistic land management and animal mob grazing. Familiarise yourself with Allan Savory.

We can, but we won't. We'll faff around spending trillions for little to no benefit. Massive countries are doing the polar opposite to others negating any positive changes. If we want to stop the drivers, we stop fossil fuels immediately. We stop travel, we stop industry, we stop energy generation except if its windy. We stop making concrete. We stop all mining, etc