Climate change protesters

davidjtaylor

Five Clare students this week addressed elected representatives of the local authority demanding action on climate change.

Eight recommendations were proposed by the five students. These were to declare a climate emergency, increasing energy resources in Clare, the introduction of an outright ban on single-use plastics, to provide grants for zero waste shops and businesses, an investment in sustainable transport methods, school buses to collect Ennis students going to Ennis schools, more frequent pedestrianisation of main streets and the rewilding of Council owned land.

Here's a few other recommendations the protesters themselves could undertake. After all, setting a good example is what we all can do.

MyKeyG

I have no doubt these students with their vast life experience provided details on where the costs for these initiatives will come from while people are knocking on deaths door in the back of ambulances on their way to a trolley in Limerick?

davidjtaylor

MyKeyG wrote: »

I have no doubt these students with their vast life experience provided details on where the costs for these initiatives will come from while people are knocking on deaths door in the back of ambulances on their way to a trolley in Limerick?

Don't shoot the messengers.

Funding: a good start would be to tax aviation fuel and airline tickets. Recoup the costs of airline infrastructure from airlines. We could tax multinationals properly too. Shut down tax havens. The bank bailouts were a tax on Irish people, they were an injustice.

Specifically regarding hospital trolleys, I'd be asking why so many people are sick in the first place.