Eamon Ryan, who is ostensibly a public servant but behaves more like a High King, has decreed that people like you and I will need to make “fundamental changes” to our lifestyle in order to combat climate change.
As reported by the Irish Times:
“Forthcoming carbon budgets for every sector of the economy will “require fundamental changes” affecting how people live and work, Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan has said….
…“The proposed carbon budgets will require transformational changes for society and the economy which are necessary…” the [Climate Change Advisory Council said.”
Carbon budget targets to 2030 will require 'fundamental changes' to how we work and live, says Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan https://t.co/sTOjGmLgNV
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 26, 2021
Now, for those who have been paying attention to the news at all in the past year or so since Ryan has been Climate and Transport Minister, you will already have a basic idea of what this “fundamental” and “transformative change” entails.
For example, if you enjoy cheap holidays abroad once a year, you can forget about it – the Dear Leader has already said he’s putting an end to all that carbon-rich carry on.
€10 flights will be a thing of the past in climate fight, Eamon Ryan warns https://t.co/LQSNFAIIAO
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) April 9, 2021
If you or your granny like being able to turn on the heat in your home when it’s cold in the winter, both you and her may be in for a rude awakening, as home heating costs have exploded due to Green policies with support of the other government parties.
Saving the planet by freezing one pensioner at a time. The carbon tax makes no sense either economically, or environmentally. After all, the reason it's so easy to apply is that it's vastly expensive to shift from home heating oil, so it's easy revenue.https://t.co/0SX88IbPDp
— John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) May 1, 2020
If you like driving your car around and would rather not take public transport (or maybe you live rurally and have no choice), tough luck; Eamon Ryan has already spearheaded the introduction of brutal carbon tax hikes which have contributed to record-high petrol prices, with over half the cost being government-imposed taxes.
Irish motorists are facing prices of over €100 to fill up their cars as petrol prices surge to new highs, with the government’s carbon tax playing a major factor.#gripthttps://t.co/WLC2zHjNLU
— gript (@griptmedia) October 26, 2021
And just let that sink in for a moment: when you go to refill your car, the price could be literally cut in half tomorrow if the government just got out of the way of the situation.
Instead of paying €100 for a refill, it could be €45 – an extra €55 in your pocket to spend as you see fit. But thanks to the Greens and other government parties who have adopted green ideology, that’s not going to happen any time soon.
However, we know these aren’t the only ways in which the Greens would like to alter people’s lives.
If they could, they’ve said they’d like to reintroduce wolves into the country for the sake of “biodiversity”. Incidentally, this will also help with overpopulation and decrease demand for housing, and thankfully would create minimal waste as wolf-chewed human corpses are biodegradable.
They’ve said they’d like to have one car for every ten families, presumably some variety of bigger-on-the-inside clown car for car-pooling purposes – that is, until cars are banned altogether and we can finally progress to Flintstone vehicles that run on pedal-power and salad dressing.
Ryan has expressed his belief that Ireland should begin to prepare to double the island’s population to 10 million people, largely through bringing in people “in scale” through mass immigration.
https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1453007963526991891
From impending rolling blackouts every winter for years to come because green energy can’t support the power grid, to offering you a really cheap rate on the loan they make you take out to retrofit your house, and even limiting how many farm animals you can own, the Green Party has got a more detailed plan for how you should live your life than you do.
Rumour has it their next manifesto will include an instruction manual for how to clip your toenails, put on your jocks, and make love to your significant other in a more “carbon-neutral” way.
https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1400784063259156481
Of course we would be remiss if we didn’t remind ourselves that Ryan has openly admitted to driving a gas guzzler, eating meat and eating dairy. His carbon footprint rings in at 13.5 tonnes, where the ideal is 2 to 3 tonnes per person.
— Feels Like Kevin☘️🇮🇪🌎💚 (@K4Climate) September 21, 2021
He even flies to a climate summit every two or three weeks – on a plane. Presumably that’s one of those God-awful “cheap flights” we’ve heard so much about.
'I'll put my hands up – I went to climate summit in Spain by plane' – Green Party leader Eamon Ryan https://t.co/spUd5zFrBj pic.twitter.com/Z0nG542bfN
— Irish Independent (@Independent_ie) January 19, 2020
And yet we’re supposed to turn our entire society upside down by denying ourselves these comforts.
That’s a lot of social engineering for what is ultimately an agenda with minimal public support. Only 7 voters out of 100 voted for the Green Party at the last election, and in the most recent Red C poll they fell to a new low of 4%. I wouldn’t call that a ringing endorsement or mandate for seismic change.
🚨 POLL 🚨
Red C / Sunday Business Post
Munster
SF: 38% (+18.9)
FG: 23% (+2.5)
FF: 13% (-13.1)
SD: 5% (+3.0)
LP: 4% (+0.1)
GP: 4% (-2.5)
PBP/S: 1% (-0.3)
AÚ: 1% (-1.1)
I/O: 10% (-8.5)October 2021
+/- Election 2020
*Small Sample Sizes*— Ireland Votes | #Vote2024 (@Ireland_Votes) October 24, 2021
More importantly, these green policies they push are about as popular as hemorrhoids with the general public, including green voters – over 80% of the electorate says it doesn’t want the changes that are being foisted upon society in a recent Irish Times poll.
Respondents presented with nine potential measures to tackle crisis of global warming https://t.co/aWKM1GGTix
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 8, 2021
If ever there was a moment where this country needed a small-government party which doesn’t have a megalomaniacal obsession with micromanaging the lives of its citizens, this is most definitely it.