"Green" policies are destroying this country

How do you know the owners of these holiday homes are outspoken on climate change?

They could all be climate change deniers for all you know

Water is of no use attempting to put out a lithium battery fire. If, as many are, are housed in a magnesium alloy you would only be adding to the fire intensity. Fire brigades are generally left with just one option, using a dry powder extinguisher where they need to get up close and personal. Never a great idea when dealing with a battery on fire. Even then it is of little use as with the salts in lithium batteries being self oxidizing they will as often as not reignite.

If there is no danger to life from a lithium battery fire or an extraction from the vehicle is not required then fire brigades have much the same approach, as deckchairs and watching it burn. Difficult to blame them for not doing so.

I'm all for unlocking the potential in our rural towns/villages, and obviously making them more viable and appealing places for people to live.

However, I don't like this attitude of a "one size fits all" approach. The presenter here uses his own experience with building a one off house in the countryside, and how it turned out to be a mistake for HIM... but he seems to be attempting to transpose this onto everyone else who chooses to live in a one off house. This is plainly far too simplistic and one dimensional thinking. There are plenty of people who are very happy living in their house in the countryside - and it's also unfair to blame this trend as the sole cause behind the death of rural villages. It's obviously more multi-faceted than that. No matter how beautiful and efficient/ergonomic you make some trendy Eco-village, there will still always be a sub-set of the population who do not want to live there. Their dream is to live down some quiet country road/lane with their 1/2 acre plot etc... the well planned village with intelligently designed amenities etc will be very appealing to many people no doubt, but not everybody. So I would be against any policy that sought to force people to live in one particular way or another.

but that's the thing, if you let people build and live where they want on a whim, you end up with a big mess. that's why they have the technical disciplines of planners and civil engineers etc.

sure you could let people build and live wherever they want, but it wouldn't be for the greater good of a better functioning society.

luckily for you people seem to be able to build wherever they want in ireland though!

Forcing everybody to live in a city/town/village for the greater good of society, will not be for the greater good because there will always be a certain percentage who do not find happiness or contentment living in that sort of environment. So you're forcing those people to be unhappy (and presumably spread their unhappiness among their neighbours), just so the other section of society can live their preferred lifestyle.

It would be a bit like forcing everyone to live the lifestyle of an extrovert, just because maybe the majority are extroverts... but then the introverts are left being miserable in order to accommodate them. You will end up with a dysfunctional society, and plenty of disharmony.

Meanwhile in the very same Germany they are razing villages to strip mine coal, are back exploring for oil and gas and are leasing and building LNG terminal due to a failed energy strategy where hand in hand, (more hand in pocket for some of their politicians) with Putin they used their influence in the E.U attempting to force others in the E.U. to follow their love-in with Putin on gas.

Even Great Thunberg, that former doyenne of greens, thinks they are as crazy as a box of frog still insisting on shutting down the few nuclear plants they have left.

Sure they can just book a ski holiday to eastern USA that has had massive amounts of snowfall.

One area of the planet warms the other gets cold…….sort of like a see-saw.

Lol buddy, climate change denier? Climate was always changing and will be changing no matter what. I already linked what actual scientists said about climate change cult you seems to be proud member of. Cmon it is only about 14 pages.

Read it and weep.

Abstract

The emphasis on a false climate crisis is becoming a tragedy for modern civilization, which depends on relible, economic, and environmentally viable energy. The windmills, solar panels and backup batteries have none if these qualities. This falsehood is pushed by a powerful lobby which Bjorn Lomborg has called a climate industrial complex, comprising some scientists, most media, industrialists, and legislators. It has somehow managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison. Multiple scientific theories and measurements show that there is no climate crisis. Radiation forcing calculations by both skeptics and believers show that the carbon dioxide radiation forcicng is about 0.3% of the incident radiation, far less than other effects on climate. Over the period of human civilization, the temperature has oscillated between quite a few warm and cold periods, with many of the warm periods being warmer than today. During geological times, it and the carbon dioxide level have been all over the place with no correlation between them.

At least he got some thanks, most just ignore your shyte.

Are we to take from this that the best course of action is to do the opposite of what the greens propose, we all know how wrong Gormley and Co. got it in 2008.😀 Cue Eamo's successor's and their lackeys telling us in 2029 that electric cars are wrong,they are destroying the planet, poisoning our kids,we have to change.😀

Sure most green voters are well to do guilt ridden urbanites with more money than sense,its the middle earners who are going to be F$%^$ again by the greens.