Climate Bolloxolgy.

Retraining to what end a lot of the jobs you are talking about will have to go if climate change is to be successful do people actually realise how Spartan the whole human race would have to become to have any hope of not damaging the atmosphere

So now you're on their side?......Or did you just scour google to refute my point?

I also mentioned "Farming"...which has nothing to do with what you 'discovered'

Is this a legitimate argument to climate change you thing farming should use to defend our role .......

China , like most places ,will do what suits china ... They're worried about climate change .. and are aware that they're 1.5 billion people and the second biggest economy in the world ... And there's often a disconnect between Chinese central ploicy and their regional politics

Oh and I'm not an advocate for Chinese government or their repressive politics -

There's a book called the dying of money. Worth a read, lots to consider about our current situation.

The world is a bigger and much more complicated place compared to when it was written but it has largely just resulted in a bigger and more complicated bubble to pop. Lots of the observations on inflationary monetary policy are at the root of what we see around us today, whether that's big tech that doesn't actually turn a profit or add value, or else it's the whole climate change agenda which will only strip real value from the economy and make everyone (except the elites) poorer.

Ciaran Fitzgerald always write a well constructed opinion piece on agri land. and we know from his time in the ima he's well able to bat for his team.

Rte would be afraid to ask him on air.

Just in relation to the climate changing before bit. That is true, but the chart below is the reality.

There's no question but that human 'presence' on the planet is having a significant impact.

That being said, I largely agree with the rest of your post. Our focus on growth within every sector literally drives the economy which drives the energy use.

When you start thinking about changing that mindset and the likely consequence of dropping sales figures, profit margins and share price and the impact on that in terms of employment, business and the economy itself, then it becomes spiral of negativity until a new normal is realised.

But, that probably is what is needed (in conjunction with minimising the use of non-sustainable resources and reducing the use of significantly contributory factors where possible) and just how realistic is this to happen outside of everyone's attention being taken by some catastrophic event such as another World War for example? The financial crash of 08 should have been an opportunity to reign in the focus on growth/profit or the pandemic which is ongoing but in both cases the primary focus of many in charge was to get back to the way things have been operating ASAP.

We've seen how a large sector of society worldwide is willing to take the chance that it will be others who are affected most in the event of the most serious pandemic in 100 years so how do we move any way towards a collective push to do what is best for us a society in the long run above what is best for those alive and in control right now?

It's heartening to see all the climate ads from the world's biggest companies on television all the time now. My favourite is the snotty children one saying to do more sustainable farming, that it's a thing now. That's Amazon I think. Beats ads from bookmakers I guess.

Doing my bit for Global warming

Climate change won't affect me and probably the regulations won't either, but it's grossly unfair the way the farmers are made the bogey men in all this.

The youth are driving this big time but instead of doing as they say we should do as they do, they want change but are showing no signs of wanting TO change . I see a schoolbus stopping near here and no one getting on and then the parents then driving out in the SUV an hour later...... and that's just one example.

So I'll be carrying on as usual, burning trees in my stove

Well that's my thoughts on it too. Yes I believe Global warming is happening. But no it all rolls back to the way people live. So I couldn't give a fiddlers no more than them fookers with there oversized houses, big cars and foreign holidays

If I heard Eamon ryan right this morning he said we shouldn't be criticising individuals, but I think if 4m individuals changed their ways it'd make abig difference. Anton savage said this morning there was four lanes of traffic on the M50 this morning, mostly one to a car, at 6.30 and it be like that for hours..

Car parking for the luas is now so expensive that it's cheaper to drive into the city,

Yes. Good point . I see young people being driven to schools across a small town in SUVs. Why can’t they cycle or even use scooters. Although I note that electrically charged scooters now require a licence / insurance etc and can be seized in the absence of same . So much for joined up thinking !

They should have insurance, we can't have people getting injured by scooters and no hope of Compo.

Getting the Garda to enforce it would be another job. but yes, anyone putting €100 fuel/week into a car, is contributing to climate change too

True and a bug bear of mine perfect cars with very little wrong scrapped

Also the electric car thing is a complete sham imo if the costs to the environment from start to finish of an electric car was made up I reckon most small one litre cars are way more efficient