Underwater.
They’re still going to slice open your wallet. They’re just going to give you an injection, first, so you don’t feel it.
The thing that is in our power – if we indeed believe that disaster is on the horizon – is to prepare for it
Perhaps that is because Eamon Ryan is something that Irish people are not used to: A politician who keeps his promises.
On all three metrics on which you might judge energy policy, then – cost, supply, and emissions – Ireland went backwards.
Wherever you are right now, you probably don’t have to be told that the ongoing energy crisis is simply dire. Not only are petrol, diesel and home heating oil costs soaring to unsustainable levels, but one secret government memo says the state is considering gas and electricity rationing. The problem is that serious. Putin’s War: […]
A group of environment-focused economists in Germany have called for massive tax hikes on meat products to combat climate change, even as food prices surge due to inflation. According to researchers from TU Berlin’s Chair of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, the government should move to limit meat consumption to “attain greenhouse gas neutrality.” “Livestock […]
Mattie McGrath TD has accused the government of being “dangled on a string” by the Greens, ripping Green TD Brian Leddin for his comments on the increased fertiliser prices. The comments were made in the Dáil this week, as fertiliser prices soar across Ireland and put strain on farming businesses. Mattie McGrath attacks the supposedly […]
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 […]
Where is the global net zero coming from? Nowhere, is the truthful answer.
If the scientists are right, and if the disaster they confidently predict is to be forestalled, then the action will have to come from big countries. And in the United States, the action is…. not forthcoming:
Horticulture peat crisis deepens