Are you concerned about the destruction of the natural world and climate change?

it seems to be wall to wall floods and fires everday now on the news .My impression is it has been getting progressively worse year on year and yes it is a worry.I suspect we would all be willing to give up our foreign Hols ,even our cars if it meant saving our coastal homes but unfortunately this will only be when there is concrete evidence sea levels are affecting our communities and then it will be too late.I live close to Dublin Bay so pay attention to reports of sea level rises and the varying reports offer concern or comfort depending on which one you read.The potential range for Sea level rises is from a few cms to 50 metres in my lifetime and this uncertainty allows one to carry on as before.I know this is a selfish attitude but we will only get general support for radical action when the evidence is both undeniable and will have local adverse affects.The locals in Clontarf protested to reduce a sea wall which just shows how far we have to go to get people to buy into there is a new reality on the way.

This is effectively the crux of of it. The vast majority of people are two focused on their day to day stuff to bother themselves with something which has no date. I can't understand how friends of mine with very young kids can be so oblivious to it. Like I said if I had them I think I'd be terrified, but then again if I did I'd probably be distracted so might not pay as much heed. Perhaps concerning ourselves with this is a luxury for those with time.

I think were there a date we might act on it. The only thing I can think of which might compare was when SA was due to run out of water a few years back. They effectively gave people a date and said they'd have no water after say June 17th.... overnight people's behaviour changed and they ended up extending the date until luckily rain came. Its more of a change in behaviour in retrospect however rather than proactively doing it. We're not great at long term planning, as evidenced by..... well anything we do.

You make a good point about bias but you cite an example that has nothing to do with climate change which is surprising.If you were able to demonstrate that the recent world wide outbreak of fires was statistically nothing out of the normal I would have been more inclined to accept your view.

100 years ago there was only a quarter of the world population there is now. 100 years ago there was no TV, no Internet. 100 years ago there was no commercial flight. Realistically 100 years ago places were burning and there wasn't anybody there to report it or give a $hit. That is an undeniable fact.

I'm not a climate change denier but just because 21st century melancholic adults living in an age of media and information saturation believe they're living through the end of days doesn't make it so.

I think we can justifiably be concerned by recent Floods & fires without being labelled Melancholic pessimists with regard to climate change.

Maybe not but having zero perspective on the issue is borderline hysteria imo.

Maybe!

The transportation of food across continents need to stop or be reduced i agree!

I believe a country like Ireland could well manage for the most part with its current population!

If you are suggesting for people to go vegan id like to hear how you think all that food will be farmed?

Im 100% in favour of banning the use of palm oil and similar environmentally destructive ingredients in food being imported!

Even if everyone in Ireland went back to living as they would have in the stone age, it wouldn't matter one whit. The populations of China and India are not going to follow suit. Are they going to? No, so you might as well stop with the pointless hand-wringing, China will happily build an entire coal fired power station for every wind turbine Ireland puts up.