"Green" policies are destroying this country

I read the last dozen pages and I'm not going to subject myself to any more ramblings. This stuff is more fit for the conspiracy theory forum.

There's about 4 pages of rambling about fossil vs hydrogen which is obviously not the way forward for personal transport if you ever looked at the amount of work actual companies (not researchers or think-tanks) are doing with it now.

It's all electric, it's all batteries, get over it, deal with it.

I haven't gotten to the "meat is a sin" part and frankly I don't want to.

Definition of newspeak

As I've said previously in climate newspeak NOT taxing fuel is reported as a subsidy, there is NO transfer of money from the taxpayer to the airline to buy aviation fuel. This same corruption in the meanings of words as commonly understood by the public is also applied to farmers use of "green diesel" and fixing potholes (see underlined) is counted as subsidies to oil refiners.

Be under no illusion climate change has nothing to do with the weather, it is entirely a political and religious movement. Doubt me, then consider the use of the word denier and consensus, these are not scientific terms they are a hallmark of intolerant religion. Further go and ask the public that agrees to explain to you the physics of climate change and what the bounds of these physics are, they won't know. All you are going to get from most people is mutterings about carbon and plastic waste, but no science. Scientists don't even know or agree what the sensitivity value is after all these decades. When you start digging into the physics and chemistry, you will find many superficial illustrations which attempt to explain, keep digging they are very unsatisfactory explanations, you will soon find out there is an incredible amount of junk science out there that you must wade through. You will learn to spot these, most are based on assumptions and computer models that bear no relation to real world observations, however they are great for generating cheap hysterical tabloid headlines. You will eventually find that root of the fashionable science is based on the conjectures of 19th century scientists. Specifically these two papers:

On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground

On the variations of the climate and historical past and their causes.

This is the conjecture behind the fashionable* science.

That conjecture is summed up in this diagram. (If you want to know what they are saying in English (6 minutes))

They you ask how is this measured and where can you find these measurements. . . . and does this match with observed reality? I certainly have not found them yet.

* Eugenics, was a fashionable "science" widely adopted by governments around the world as a basis for social policy, with horrifying results. There are several other examples of fashionable science over the decades or millennia. Eventually this fall out of fashion as well.

To be fair iv glanced at this thread now and again. And some egits have unbelievably suggest this at points along it.

Correct,

the creation of viable villages rather than dispersed rural living is key to rural sustainability.

Wrong.

Villages and small towns are dying a death because people don't shop there anymore, all off to the major towns where you have the big Tescos/ Dunnes and Aldi/Lidl stores. all the buy in the village is a few litres of milk during the week. So putting more people in villages won't make a bit of difference.

Great to see the city folk knowing what's best for the country as usual.

Your talking there as if these people are living 40,000 miles from anywhere Yurt. They aren't. Ireland is a small island and any service you just outlined there can be easily done and in a lot of the cases you just outlined, it already is being done, mainly by private companies, especially in the travel and broadband services/sectors.

What isn't being provided to rural communities, with these new fandangled notions of 'viable villages' and 'viable towns' are the PUBLIC SERVICES that government is supposed to provide to communities everywhere. You and Blanch there want 'viable villages'? Bit rich when the current gang in power closed down A&E departments and Garda stations in already 'viable towns' and 'viable villages', so what is going to be done to address that glaring problem, seeing you want the best for rural Ireland, yes?

I don't watch Netflix actually and my fibre broadband works just fine, just like my in-laws who also live out in a far worse 'deserted hinterland archipelago' than I do. We use it for our business and information and it works just fine. You want to talk about fiscal disasters? Well plenty of elements fall into that category, National Children's Hospitals and all that noise.

What towns are you talking about that are suffering from depopulation? Roscommon A&E was closed while that town's population and other infrastructure was increasing. I mean, you and Blanch there are on about getting one off housing stopped, yeah? Wouldn't a good way to get your dastardly One Off Housing scenarios reduced or even stopped by keeping things such as A&E's and Garda stations in 'Viable Villages & Towns' open and functioning? How else are you going to attract people into these "viable' areas in the first place?

But don't you want people to get out of the countryside and move into these provincial rural towns and villages? How are you going to convince them when the essential services are not there?