"Green" policies are destroying this country

The solution is obvious - you call in sick more to work because you're sitting at home in the cold. That would be the "green" thing to do.

The one good thing that has come out of COP26 is that it has really shown what a farce it has become.

The media are showing all that, while it's not their intention to show it in a bad light it's backfiring big time.

The posturing and posing by the great and good flying in on their private jets, Johnston flying home on his private jet for dinner, Obama flying over from his mansion to lecture on how we should live our lives while he did nothing when he was in power,

Greta the great going around Glasgow like some kind of rock star,

The President of COP26 gave his speech on how coal has been consigned to history while the big coal users sign up for nothing, instead opening up new coal plants instead of closing them.

And the main man himself Biden comes over for a nap, you couldn't make this stuff up.

Well done to RTE, TV3, BBC and SKY frow showing this farce up, you have done us all a great service.

COP26 - a disgusting display of the great and the good telling the average punter they need to pay more while they jet around in private planes. The farce of COP26 is more likely to put many people off and turn against the green agenda.

As I said in a detailed post yesterday about driving, a car that is being driven in the country is better than one sitting in traffic.

Fibre would be passing by the house anyway. the postman passes also, no difference if there were another 10 houses on my road, services are already there.

Very few farmers burn rubbish nowadays, but you will always get one.

People are concerned but mainly around how they are expected to afford retrofitting and buying new EVs.

maybe, but i suspect more and more are just disturbed to see how badly our governments have been, and continue to be, in failing to deal with this, theyve no real clue, even our green parties are lost, very disturbing

I would bet that if you took a poll of Irish people in the morning of their main issues or concerns that climate change would be near the bottom and well behind the perennial concerns of housing and health.

I'll do my bit for climate change that I can. Walk or cycle where practical and I recently insulated my attic myself because, ironically enough, it was cheaper to do a DIY job on it than avail of the green SEAI grants. But I can't afford what they are looking for in the Climate Action Plan which is for me to take on significant debt for retrofitting and to buy an EV. And honestly those heat pumps that are going to be pushed on people in the next decade are useless except for houses designed to take them.

This is a country of plenty so almost everything can be rationed. If driving is expensive, then you'll find that people reduce the quantity of discretionary journeys and consolidate the necessary ones. I do think there is a gap in understanding the current price per km for a traditionally fueled car though.

Once road pricing is brought in that will change though.

Somebody was asking whether the carbon tax revenue is earmarked.

Originally, at introduction in 2010, I don't think so.

But recently, the increases in the carbon tax are ringfenced / earmarked.

See here:

https://assets.gov.ie/201264/5c96e5cd-b663-4887-bf2e-e13a393ffc50.pdf

people are actually extremely concerned, they dont change because a lot of the time, they simply cant, theres no real true affordable alternatives available to people, making major changes primarily means taking on substantial amounts of personal debt, this approach has run its course, people are unwilling/unable to truly do this anymore, so, the only way out of this is that states must take the lead, they must take on these debts on our behalf, the load of these debts must be spread out over society, we clearly have major wealth inequality issues, all of these issues now must be addressed, or we re probably fcuked as a species

China has 43 new coal fired power stations in the works

Anything we do is pure virtue signalling at this stage.

I put forward the theory that we are f*cked on the Global Warming front unless some massive CO2/Meathane scrapping system comes along. So perhaps we should enjoy our last few decades of our easy existance & party our way out the door. Earth will be fine once we're gone so it will hasten things along so to speak.

I think you are overestimating people's concern about this. Sure everyone will tell you that they are concerned about climate change and will do a bit more recycling etc. But tell them that means they'll have to curtail their cheap flights to Spain or they'll have to stop buying the latest Apple gadget from China and you'll see how long that concern will last.

I believe if there is a slowness to understand then I`m not the one with the problem of being obtuse.

There is absolutely nothing to prevent a government ring fencing taxation for the purpose the claim it is being collected for other than it being embarrassedly shown at a later date the did not use it as was promised

The 2011 - 2016 government had no problem promising to ring fence water charges when attempting to get them accepted as far as I recall.

The I million cars by 2030 is a target that the greens have repeated on many occasions since entering government. So the simple question still stands is that a baseless fantasy or do you believe it is achievable ?