You know, as a regular punter on the outside looking in, it can sometimes seem like the Irish government are as extreme on the issue of climate change as one could possibly be. This is, after all, the same government who spent years running around the country shutting down “pristine” power stations, without any immediate […]
In an effort to soften the unpopular impact of carbon taxes, the green political lobby have coined the terms “Climate Justice” and “a just transition”. Without explaining how this new money generated from all the opportunities of this “just transition” gets into the hands of ordinary people, the political class hint that a transition to […]
Michael Healy-Rae TD has accused Climate Minister Eamon Ryan of living in “Never-Never Land” like Michael Jackson, adding that he would like to welcome the Minister to “the real world” as regards the rising cost of living. The remarks were made yesterday in the Dáil during Leaders’ Questions. “I have always said and I am […]
Activists and TDs have welcomed the recommendation that peat harvesting in Ireland be resumed in 2022, after a public outcry greeted the sudden closure of Irish operations and the subsequent importation of both peat moss and peat briquettes into the country. The Irish Independent reported this morning that “the Government’s working group is expected to […]
The unborn child
China has not pledged to reduce emissions by one single tonne.
Green Party TD Ossian Smyth has said that Covid-19 has proven the public are willing to make “dramatic” lifestyle changes to avert perceived crises, which could also extend to their behaviour on climate change. The remarks were made by the Dun Laoghaire TD last week during a Dáil debate. Ossian Smyth, Green Party, on how […]
COP26 is a circus, and this ugly ideology at its core.
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The Irish Government’s agenda, these days, is the agenda of the right-on online activist.
“We’re in either a collapse or a massive transformation culturally in the West,” Paul Kingsnorth tells me cheerfully from his home study in Ireland. “We’re very much at the end of the last dregs of Christendom, which have been dragged out for a long time and are now basically gone. If you take a step […]
The whole point of the carbon tax in theory is that it shifts behaviour – that it is a “nudge” in the right direction. But in reality, it does not do that, because investing in the ability to use alternative fuels is beyond the average household.