"Green" policies are destroying this country

You wanted to know more about Green spending plans. I gave you their contact details. Let us know how you get on.

Ah @[Deleted User] , go away to **** ya spoofer. You directly attributed the state of Lough Neagh to agriculture. Here, I'll add the post you said it

If we are truly doing nothing, how are we harming the planet?

We should stop importing crap made in China at an EU level. On the pretext they produce 70% + power from coal apart from all their human rights abuse's.

We should stop importing beef from Latin America at an EU level, instead they signed an additional Brazilian beef deal so largely German industry could sell cars and medical equipment back there.

We should prioritise water treatment here and clean rivers and lakes, at least prioritise something and make it happen. Then speed up the resetting and bog repair and the reintroduction of diversity in our uplands and reforestation.

we also need population planning with respect to all of the above - are we just going to keep building houses exponentially? And we need proper planning the current model is not fit for purpose and clearly lacks the inherent skills and coordination which means we end up with stuff like the children’s hospital and many many other examples of urban sprawl with no viable public transport here. Big population growth in midland towns with zero additional jobs growth so immediately all that house building is increasing journey duration.

but someone mentioned earlier apathy is the word. There is no mandate in the political system to drive real change.

I haven't quite got my head around this fascination for rewetting bogs? They are plenty wet themselves after the rainfall over the last few months, particularly in July. If they were such a priority, why is the organisation responsible for their management more preoccupied with competing with other state bodies to deliver commercial offshore wind farms?

Always remember the objective of a politician is votes. This is just tactical maneuvering to get past a difficult issue, it will not change the direction of Western nations political class. In this case, the Conservative party members will read into what they want, have any laws changed? No. It was Teresa Mays government that committed the Tories to following this path set by Labour (Ed Milliband), her successor Boris Johnson was fully onboard. Liz Truss might have reversed course if that faction of the party had any grip on power, the head of lettuce lasted longer than she did. The English political establishment Labour and Lib Dems are fully onboard with net-zero (only 5 MPs voted against the Climate Change Act), only the Reform party (previously UKIP) objects to net-zero and they are nowhere in terms of votes. Checkout Lord Deben, King Charles gets a sovereign grant from offshore Wind tubines, the 12 nautical miles off Britain are part of the crown estate. The city (i.e. money) and the establishment are all in on net zero.

it's about resetting drained bogs you'll find bogs with farmland next to them that get drained.

unless you want to build a windfarm then you can drain all the bog you want.

Lots of people care. Gas flaring and methane emissions from Coal mines are even more reasons why we need to get rid of Fossil fuels asap.

All this nonsense about 'personal responsibility' and 'carbon footprints' that were invented by the PR companies hired by the Fossil Fuel industry is nothing compared to the emissions caused by the extraction and transportation of Oil and Gas and Coal before they even get near the consumer

We need to stay firm. Block every attempt to open new gas fields, and divert all of those efforts to speeding up the transition to renewable energy that does not passively poison the atmosphere for generations to come.

It is the establishment against the people. Not much to vote for. No main party will go against the climate action program. People will support Climate Action as a general concept. That means of course that THEY, the government should be doing their best on this front. It is seen as a moral duty. However, more and more information is coming out what it actually entails. It exposes the widespread corruption and the costs (and diminishing benefits) involved. Money that is badly needed for more pressing matters. Most people are not really aware of what goes on behind the climate action scenes. They thought they supported the right moral path. Now they are finding out, little by little what they've signed up to and they are thinking twice, despite the state and media propaganda. Covid19 has taught them a lesson. I think the tide is turning. Rishi Sunak is beginning to realise that and so are other european politicians. They are afraid and rightly so.. And so are the green leading troops. Their window of opportunity is narrowing and want to copperfast laws so future politicians wont be able to shift. But the shift is already happening. They are losing ground..

Things like the gas boiler ban really hits home. People clearly see they are being coerced.The pushback has reached the top of the establishment now..

Rewetting bogs involves reversing the drainage channels that were dug to clear the water from the rain that we have had this summer.

Rewetting the bogs does 2 things. It stops emissions of carbon from the soil as the bogs dry out and the vegitation starts to decompose in an aerobic environment. The amount of emissions caused by drained bogs on their own is massive, and will contribute to a significant amount of warming if we don't address this.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0615-5

Re-wetting bogs changes them back to being a carbon sink (this doesn't happen immediately, but over time) , which actively sequesters carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and contributes towards reducing the emissions from Irish land use.

If we can re-wet more of our bogs, we can both increase our natural biodiversty of native species, and give us some breathing space to meet our carbon reduction commitments at a more manageable pace.

They considered the land to be 'wasteland'

In fact, that land is a very valuable natural resource in it's state as a peat bog.

Most of the drained bogs are being used to grow Pine and Spruce forestry which is low value and destroys the natural ecosystem they are planted on.

Practically no food is grown on drained bogs, other than some sheep grazing (farming EU subsidies more than food)

Ireland was absolutely devastated by centuries of British occupation, our natural forests were chopped down to make British Cathedrals and the ships they used to colonise the world leaving us with one of the least forested landscapes in Europe.

Our pussyfooting around the need for new generation (and Ryan's insistence that it be temporary and only for emergencies) means we now have to build it in the face of high inflation.

Just in case anyone thought this was going to make wind power more competitive ... GE are wind turbine suppliers too. And we need gas backup for any new wind anyway.