Climate emergency - why is Dublin Airport expanding???

For the last time I can find readily available data (2016) from the IATA, "System-wide, airlines carried 4.1 billion passengers on scheduled services, an increase of 7.3% over 2016, representing an additional 280 million trips by air." and by 2036 IATA projects 7.8 billion passengers, since the local population has crossed the 5 million mark for the first time since 1851, it's a fair assessment that another runway is needed unless in future you would prefer to land at Shannon and take the high speed rail back to Dublin.

The Greens are watermelons, green on the outside, red in the centre. They are NOT TO BE TRUSTED. All they want is your vote, only then will you find out how bad it can be under their rule. Their growth can be traced back to the collapse of the Soviet Union where a new vehicle was needed to replace communism, ecology was chosen. Ultimately, the Greens are just one specific form in which anti-capitalism today articulates itself. The panic-mongering about the imminent end of the world is simply a pretext for reorganizing the economy into a control and command system.

None of our politicians can tell you what the ideal temperature is for life on earth and quantify how the enforcement of their policies will achieve that. As an example it is clear to all who want to take the time to look that mandating an electrical grid to be powered by 70% random energy by 2030 will necessarily result in an unstable grid and Eirgrid has been warning about this. Yet many people are so far stuck up their asses that they have concocted a climate emergency in their heads that bears no relation to reality and are stuck in groupthink.

As an example of how out of touch with human welfare these people are see the UN Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: 2020 Report How many of the 5.2 million were caused by the "climate emergency"? Compared with the past with some exceptions mainly due to war all the human welfare metrics indicate improvement in the standard of living of humans. For context how many millions lose their lives every year due to adverse weather events?.

There are ~40 million abortions per annum this is not caused by the "climate emergency".

Over 4 million deaths have Corona virus attributed as a factor in their cause of death, that's not the "climate emergency".

It is estimated that 80% of the global population live on less than $10 per day. We currently have access to a stable electricity supply in this country, however across the globe 2.6 billion don't as yet.

beleive it or not, the ipcc isnt picking up on everything, its main economic contributors work, is currently being shredded to pieces, they dont understand how much trouble we re in, particularly in regards the impact of climate change, and our global economy. so, we really are in deep sh1t!

Anything to be said for a modern nuclear reactor or two? I couldn't imagine a better solution to reducing fossil fuel consumption and having predictable reliable power production.

It's going to be the only solution in the future.

Anyone with half a brain knows it.

Probably not our generation.

Shhh, don't try to ruin the fun of the "bash the Greens" brigade.

funny you mention tol's work, as its his work thats been shredded to pieces, along side his butty nordhaus, neither have a clue about their professional fields

the greens a bit lost in regards maintaining our economy, and protecting our environment, such is the extent of the problem

disagree strongly, our governments are virtually completely lost in regards how to maintain functioning economies, and tackling our environmental problems simultaneously, we need a new, and completely radical change in how we approach these problems, our governments arent ready for that yet, continually defaulting to what they know, it wont work. for example, continuing to move the bulk of taxation towards citizens wont work, governments, and ultimately state financial institutions, need to step up to the mark, we also need to create new, purpose orientated state institutions to do so, again, we re not ready for these moves yet

No parties are anti immigration, why single out the Greens for this? Also as I seem to have to remind people all the time, FG introduced Carbon Taxes and signed up to the Paris Agreement, when Greens were nowhere near Government, but somehow the country is convinced the taxes are the work of the Greens, a smooth move by FG/FF I guess.

On flights I would have thought there are more than enough routes right now. To facilitate travel maybe more ferry routes are required and less destinations by air, Europe is well connected by trains. Maybe longer trips abroad, slow travel, and the end of constant city breaks should be the way forward.

largely completely agree, the greens are unable to see the big picture, they just dont get it, they dont realise that average joe and mary are in serious trouble, and cannot take anymore sh1te, particular in relation to taxation. i completely agree in regards nuclear and hydrogen, thorium seems to be the way forward there, but....... nuclear resistance is understandable but...., and it also looks like we actually dont have the raw materials required on the planet, in order to move to a fully renewable world, so that ll probably be a bigger problem soon enough, and a realisation, hopefully it wont be too late when that occurs.

i personally think it is possible to maintain our advancement as a species globally, but some serious realisations are required first

the greens are locked into the neoliberal/neoclassical school of economics, they dont seem to truly understand why theres such a resistance to their policies, as the publics perception of them is, 'they are the party of taxes', this is only partially true of course, as all parties are ultimately probably also, as most are also locked into this frame of thinking. i do believe this approach will ultimately fail, again, average joe and mary are in serious trouble, the approach of promoting major sectors, in particular the fire sectors(finance, insurance and real estate), in order to run our economies, has failed, we re currently experiencing these failures, most evident in our property market failures, but this is very evident environmentally to, we re still locked into this frame of thinking, it wont work

Well it's a global issue and the EU is a huge polluter domestically and also with the amount of pollution we outsource to China, we are a massive market for China obviously.

So all this Ireland can do nothing thing is silly really, we are part of the EU, the EU can do an awful lot to curb emissions and pollution, both in Europe and China, if we can get our act together.