"Green" policies are destroying this country

Well, we have a similar situation here, and to hell with food security. Grade 1 tillage land near Ashbourne is now being turned into a solar farm. According to the farmer in the short video, Irish tillage is at zero or near carbon neutral tillage levels 28 years ahead of the 2050 carbon neutral target. So what do the powers that be do? Why turn it into a solar farm to power more bloody data centres?

Fine, lead the way.

It just further shows the state of journalism in this country when any statement by green energy companies or talking head greens are allowed without question push their agenda. RTE are the present masters when it comes to this.

Although in this case I`m not sure the journalist is totally to blame. Whoever edited that piece and choose the headline is far from blameless. When the head of a green energy company makes the statements as John Mullins did in that article in relation to gas, then it`s difficult to see why that was not the headline being due to anything other than editorial policy.

Not long ago we sneered at U.K. "red top" having similar editorial policies, and were shocked that a Sinn Fein/Workers Party Cumann within RTE was using its influence to shape the output of RTE programming. We have certainly come full circle from those days

So you don't want to change your activities, but want to tell others to do so? OK if that's your thing.

You believe that you doing your bit is going to improve the situation. Fair dues to anyone that believes that, but when it comes to criticising others for not doing the same, then to be listened too you are going to have to be able to back up the theory behind the thinking with more than just broad strokes.

You could go out and shoot 2 million cattle in Ireland and it`s not going to make one iota of difference to global emissions. Growing food organically without pesticides or herbicides is going to reduce yields. A scientific fact that, greens for all their noise about "follow the science" on climate change are happy to ignore, will create world food shortages. You have only to look at the problems 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat from a world annual production of 720 millions tons was creating to see that.

On electricity we are not being asked to consume less, we are being asked/forced to consume even more using EVs, heat pumps etc. with a policy that is highly questionable when if ever that supply of electricity will fill even our present demands. Faith in a policy is all well and good, but unless real quantifiable results can be shown for a policy then faith quickly goes out the window. Especially for a policy where a lacking of joined up thinking is so obvious.

go to any supermarket and look at all the crap that is sold nowadays. So many things we don't need. Hundreds of different types of ready meals covered in hard plastic. Things we did without only a couple of decades ago. It's like a race to the bottom and I don't think you should just be allowed put these things on the market if they are not required.