"Green" policies are destroying this country

https://www.facebook.com/582661721/videos/368426762786762

The only concerning part in that article is the "Diesel rebates should also be phased out, as well as other subsidies on fossil fuels" which will affect the hauliers delivering goods and to the farmers producing food which will lead to higher prices at the Supermarkets.

The rest will most likely occur even if the Greens aren't in power..

You're a bold man to be making political predictions with your track record

Does anyone under 45 actually have a telly anymore? The only time I ever watch(ed) RTE/BBC is/was in the pub..

I don't blame the EU for taking a stance on climate control. The fact of that matter is aside from the countries being severely affected ie Africa, parts of Asia etc who are right now experiencing severe climate issues is that the EU is going to be heavily impacted as a result of these disasters. EA is right on their doorstop so they know that migration will significantly increase 100/1000x over the next decade or two.

The only way to combat is to reduce our footprint...this means reducing air travel, reducing food exports, no more importing beef from Argentina etc, no more exporting beef from Ireland across the world. Each country should only produce what they need and that's it.

but its not going to happen. Too many vested interests.

Drastic measures are required but Eamon is too much of a muppet to actually deal with it plus he's thoroughly unlikeable and comes across as a complete spoofer.

Watch as our children and their children hammer the current generations for the state in which we've left the planet.

And believe me..I'm not a green supporter but even I can see the writing is on the wall and the species is facing a massive climate crisis in the next 30 years or so if we continue doing the same ****.

How many businesses in Dundrum have closed since the implementation of the one way system? None that I've noticed.

Turned it off straight away. I'm sure I wasn't only one.

Dublin city centre would be the opposite where the scum took over and are still a huge presence. Though I was up in the DAFM yesterday and strolled around that part of the city. I was pleasantly surprised not to encounter too many wasters. Long may it continue.

In not so positive news, a Dublin-Galway bus route is closing due to lack of passengers

Yeah it was bad before, but is worse now. I've been around the city since Covid (not too often mind) and have noticed more gimps about than previously. Maybe I'm just more aware after all the talk about it in different sources and it just seems to be more around. The dodgy spots seem to be more and more nowadays too.

I'd have thought with all the traffic congestion providing passive surveillance that Dublin city centre would be one of the safest places on earth

That seems to be green thinking alright that each country should only produce what they need and that`s it, but how people who talk about global climate change not being able to see that a global shortage of food will kill you long before climate change to me is a mystery. And the E.U. are no guniuses in that regard either. Take wheat for example. The E.U exports on average 32 million tons of wheat annually. While they, the U.N. et al. were telling us that Ukraine not being able to export 12 million tons because of Putin`s war was going to result in hunger and famine famine in some developing countries, the E.U was attempting to push through a ban on pesticides where their own experts were telling them it would result in at least a 12 million ton reduction in E.U wheat yield.Our own homegrown green geniuses cattle culling brain fart being another example.

As far as Asia is concerned I don`t see where we should have any compunction in the E.U. to wreck our economies on their behalf. Like charity, efforts on climate change should start at home. China is burning more coal than ever to produce green tech for export to boost their economy, India and Japan both told COP in Edinburgh they would burn away at coal for the sake of theirs, and both India and China are taking advantage of the E.U. ban on Putin`s gas and oil buying it from Putin at reduced rates.

Africa is primarily nothing more than attempts at guilt tripping because some E.U. countries had colonies there in the past. THere is no shortage of E.U countries that were colonised in the past. Our own being one of the worlds longest running. But that seems to be forgotten or swept under the carpet as it doesn`t suit the narrative. The vast majority of immigrants from Africa and indeed South America, are economic immigrants not climate change immigrants. That has a lot more to do with those countries they are coming from due to mismanaging their own economies, large scale corruption, their never ending wars and coups, than a legacy of colonisation. Just to use food again as an example. Famine in Eithopia in 1985, Population 40 million. Another famine developing there now. Population 126.5 million. Last year their own government estimate that 15.8 million face hunger and they will need food aid. June 2023 the World Food Programme suspended all food aid to Eitiopia because of ongoing aid corruption.

Difficult one. The centralised clinics seem to be magnets for trouble, but how these people will handle their addictions without them is arguably far worse. Had more grief from feral kids.