Extinction Rebellion Ireland

Thelonious Monk · 10-10-2019 2:05pm

As someone who cyles to work myself fair play to them. Its shameful how bad cycling infrastructure is here.
Way too many people clog the city centre with private cars that dont need to. The civil service have a ridiculous amount of car spaces in the city which sets such a bad example.

Micky 32 · 10-10-2019 2:06pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

I’ve aleeady outlined my views on the aviation industry. It should be wound down until a zero Carbon version of aviation is found.

Well unfortunately that won’t happen anytime soon i’m afraid , even the government aren’t stupid enough to touch aviation .

topper75 · 10-10-2019 2:08pm

castletownman wrote: »

I wonder did delaying the flight have the knock-on effect of planes having to circle around the airport waiting for their turn to use the runway? Which is delicious irony if it did.

I never thought of it that way. He's probably in league with BP. I'll shake that man's hand if we get a warmish summer in 2020! Here's hoping.:D

jmayo · 10-10-2019 2:09pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Would it not be down to too many cattle? I mean another poster says extensive farming is the way forward but that produces less food and needs more land. So surely we'd have to drastically reduce the herd and amount of dairy and beef we produce if we were to go down that road.
Does anyone agree that we need to reduce the amount of cattle in Ireland?

I don't think we need to reduce number of cattle in Ireland.
We are fairly good at rearing them.

We need to think global on this whole thing.

That means areas do what they are good at.
That means that Ireland rear cows, sheep.
Australia stops growing cotton, rice and vines that require irrigation and
sucking the Murray Darling dry.

Farming in the likes of Saudi Arabia can't be sustainable when they are having to suck water out of aquifers 3000 feet underground.

Thelonious Monk · 10-10-2019 2:11pm

jmayo wrote: »

I don't think we need to reduce number of cattle in Ireland.
We are fairly good at rearing them.

We need to think global on this whole thing.

That means areas do what they are good at.
That means that Ireland rear cows, sheep.
Australia stops growing cotton, rice and vines that require irrigation and
sucking the Murray Darling dry.

Farming in the likes of Saudi Arabia can't be sustainable when they are having to suck water out of aquifers 3000 feet underground.

do we need a cap on the numbers? that's what I'm getting at, it can't keep growing indefinitely.

Beechwoodspark · 10-10-2019 2:16pm

Micky 32 wrote: »

Well unfortunately that won’t happen anytime soon i’m afraid , even the government aren’t stupid enough to touch aviation .

Mark my words if the climate crisis gets worse as it probably will knowing human nature, all flights will be grounded at some stage in the future. As well as fossil fuel burning. It’ll get that bad.

IamtheWalrus · 10-10-2019 2:25pm

Best of luck Extinction Rebels of Ireland. I helped block and take one of London's bridges and am currently helping block Trafalgar Square. Be strong!

Micky 32 · 10-10-2019 2:30pm

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Best of luck Extinction Rebels of Ireland. I helped block and take one of London's bridges and am currently helping block Trafalgar Square. Be strong!

You are wasting your time lol

Micky 32 · 10-10-2019 2:32pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Mark my words if the climate crisis gets worse as it probably will knowing human nature, all flights will be grounded at some stage in the future. As well as fossil fuel burning. It’ll get that bad.

Mark my words in yours and my lifetime you’ll see no significant climate shift, i would bet everything i have on it . But enjoy your little doomsday bubble.

lleti · 10-10-2019 2:34pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Not in favor of “frightening” ppl but honestly a bit of sober reality injected into the conversation on climate change and where we as a planet are headed is well required at this stage.

Do you know the actions required so we are not headed in that direction?

I'll tell you, there's nothing we can do to not end up in the position climate acitivists say we're going to.

The only thing we can do is slow the pace of the change. People say it will give time to come up with a solution to reverse it in future.

To take inspiration from Greta, all climate activists dream about is fairytails of technology advancement which will defy the laws of physics.

Humans consume resources. There are finite resources.

Just let us live our lives to the best we can ffs, stop giving us hardship in the name of our great great great great grandchildren. Just don't have kids!

I know for a fact that I would rather have 1m people with a good quality of life than 5m people with a ****ty quality of life.

blinding · 10-10-2019 3:05pm

TheRodgers wrote: »

the man on the plane this morning is a terrorist he hijacked a plane and made demands he should be treated no different and jailed accordingly.

He needs to be made example of . Eco terrorism needs to be eradicated .

blinding · 10-10-2019 3:07pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

The last time the greens were in government they spent 300k euro counting frogs as the country was heading to near bankruptcy.

The Eu loves the Greens = Taxes , taxes lovely jubbly .

Del.Monte · 10-10-2019 3:11pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Well maybe not but it’s a part of the Green Party wishlist if they get into coalition

Another reason that I won't be voting for them.

Hector Savage · 10-10-2019 3:11pm

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/blind-man-climbs-ba-plane-extinction-rebellion-airport-takeover-10895765/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

Not all heroes wear capes folks... :rolleyes:

Absolute tosser should be thrown in jail and fined the cost of this delay he's caused.

blinding · 10-10-2019 3:14pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/blind-man-climbs-ba-plane-extinction-rebellion-airport-takeover-10895765/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

Not all heroes wear capes folks... :rolleyes:

Absolute tosser should be thrown in jail and fined the cost of this delay he's caused.

He won’t make a Blind bit of difference !

lleti · 10-10-2019 3:15pm

These people want to collapse society because they're bitter they are failures in their own lives and don't want anyone else to be successful.

blackwhite · 10-10-2019 3:16pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/blind-man-climbs-ba-plane-extinction-rebellion-airport-takeover-10895765/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

Not all heroes wear capes folks... :rolleyes:

Absolute tosser should be thrown in jail and fined the cost of this delay he's caused.

What a charming character.......... cheating in paralympic events

The campaigner is a Paralympic cyclist who took bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games for Ireland in the cycling time trial. In 2016 he was banned from the sport for two and a half years for a doping violation.

blinding · 10-10-2019 3:22pm

blackwhite wrote: »

What a charming character.......... cheating in paralympic events

He’s still on the Dope . Otherwise he would not be trying to ride an Aeroplane .

Thelonious Monk · 10-10-2019 3:30pm

At least we can argue in this thread until we're all dead

Keyzer · 10-10-2019 3:46pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Mark my words if the climate crisis gets worse as it probably will knowing human nature, all flights will be grounded at some stage in the future. As well as fossil fuel burning. It’ll get that bad.

Utterly ridiculous statement - the ramblings of a halfwit.

maxwell smart · 10-10-2019 3:48pm

They have rightly screwed up Merrion Square.

Was walking past there today and there is a tented village in the park there and then a row of soup kitchen type operations and a stage area.

Nothing against people protesting but 90% of the people I saw there were dressed like (and I am generalising here) they just moved on from another protest.

Keyzer · 10-10-2019 3:50pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/blind-man-climbs-ba-plane-extinction-rebellion-airport-takeover-10895765/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

Not all heroes wear capes folks... :rolleyes:

Absolute tosser should be thrown in jail and fined the cost of this delay he's caused.

He should be put in a psychiatric hospital.

blinding · 10-10-2019 3:52pm

maxwell smart wrote: »

They have rightly screwed up Merrion Square.

Was walking past there today and there is a tented village in the park there and then a row of soup kitchen type operations and a stage area.

Nothing against people protesting but 90% of the people I saw there were dressed like (and I am generalising here) they just moved on from another protest.

Are drugs Eco-Green ?

McDermotX · 10-10-2019 4:01pm

lleti wrote: »

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1182007924157227010

Gerrout and get a bleedin' job !

tonycascarino · 10-10-2019 4:02pm

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Best of luck Extinction Rebels of Ireland. I helped block and take one of London's bridges and am currently helping block Trafalgar Square. Be strong!

How you think you are going to endear yourselves to non-nutjobs and get support for doing what you are doing baffles me altogether.

Beechwoodspark · 10-10-2019 4:19pm

In case anyone is wondering I’ve confirmed a visit to the camp on sat morn possibly alone or with kids and will mingle with the protestors and take in the whole thing. That’s the plan anyway

weldoninhio · 10-10-2019 4:23pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/blind-man-climbs-ba-plane-extinction-rebellion-airport-takeover-10895765/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter

Not all heroes wear capes folks... :rolleyes:

Absolute tosser should be thrown in jail and fined the cost of this delay he's caused.

They should have used a water cannon to get him down.

Keyzer · 10-10-2019 4:25pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

In case anyone is wondering I’ve confirmed a visit to the camp on sat morn possibly alone or with kids and will mingle with the protestors and take in the whole thing. That’s the plan anyway

I don't think anyone here really cares... good luck though, looks like you'll be right at home with the crazy gang.

_Brian · 10-10-2019 4:25pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

In case anyone is wondering I’ve confirmed a visit to the camp on sat morn possibly alone or with kids and will mingle with the protestors and take in the whole thing. That’s the plan anyway

Sounds like you’ve confirmed tickets for a zoo or a carnival freak show. Just remember no matter how much the kids cry you can’t just take a protester home. They are for life and not just the protest week they will pine away if not on their natural environment blocking ordinary people going about their business and making a general nuisance of themselves.

mgn · 10-10-2019 4:26pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

In case anyone is wondering I’ve confirmed a visit to the camp on sat morn possibly alone or with kids and will mingle with the protestors and take in the whole thing. That’s the plan anyway

Make sure you put a clothes peg on your nose before you go, must be some smell of that scruffy mob by now.

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