"Green" policies are destroying this country

Limiting carbon emission to 1.5 Celsius would do nothing to help the Maldives and other small island countries (SICs) that are endangered by rising sea levels. Why don't the wealthiest countries spend money on helping those SICs to create strong coastal defences to protect against the rising levels?

With polls showing the Green Party consistently within the margin of error with around half of their 2020 general election vote, I don`t see that it really matters, but as to your question this might help.

It shows that the vast majority of those that favored the Green Party in polls since the last General Election are in the ABC1 social class while that of those in the C2DE social class has been dropping off dramatically.

I really do not have the time to waste on more of your twisting on the hook nonsense. If you want to believe that those participants in opinion polls carried out since the GE of 2020 lied about their social class since then you work away.

It`s not going to change the facts that presently those that support the Green Party are in the ABC1 social category (the leafy suburbs class) while whatever support they had at the last GE from those in the C2DE category (the working class) has dropped off dramatically.

😁 I showed you the data that proved the posters`s point that the Green Party vote is predominately from the ABC1 leafy suburbs social class and since the got their hands on power whatever working class C2DE vote they had is disappearing like snow off a ditch.

LOL

Humanity must progress and adapt. It’s not enough to settle for the status quo when it’s clearly inadequate. While The Greens must approach their policies pragmatically, it’s essential that by 2050, we transition to a fully renewable way of living. Our existence in the cosmos is fleeting, and over the last 130 years, our impact on Earth has been profoundly negative. We could have made wiser choices. Continuing on our current path is not viable. Criticism of The Greens is common, yet they are challenging the complacency of those who resist change, preferring to maintain a status quo that serves their interests and not those who will come hundreds of years after them.

From the Biz Post's ESG briefing:

All is not well in the world of electric vehicles... there has been a 16 per cent decline in Irish electric vehicle (EV) sales in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period in 2023. This was against the backdrop of a reasonable growth rate of 8 per cent in the overall car market, with sales of petrol and diesel vehicles growing by 14.8 and 9 per cent respectively, according to the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI).

And as our columnist Vincent Boland highlighted this week, there are similar trends being witnessed globally. In the first quarter of this year, global sales of electric vehicles at EV giants Tesla and BYD tumbled. Tesla’s were down a fifth and BYD’s were down two fifths, compared to the last quarter of 2023. While the sales dive at these EV behemoths can be chalked up to supply chain bottlenecks, disruption caused by labour disputes, and even price wars that are sharpening competition among EV makers, it is also clear that demand for EVs is cooling off.

Here in Ireland, any reduction in EV demand is a particular worry, when you consider the scale of our EV sales targets, and the reliance of our climate targets on reaching those targets. The government has set a target of 175,000 EV sales by the end of 2025, and 945,000 by 2030. Even if every car sold from tomorrow was fully electric, the government would still fall short, and in fact less than 20 per cent of new car sales are electric currently.

The reasons for the dip in Irish EV sales are manyfold, including a slow pace of EV charging infrastructure delivery feeding into stories of long queues at existing chargers. Similarly, a broad political pushback on green initiatives is helping to spread misinformation about EVs, while there has been a collapse in second-hand trade-in values due to improving battery performance in newer models which also feeds anxiety about the value of investing in an EV.

But it also mustn’t be forgotten that last year the Irish government reduced its grants for electric vehicles from €5,000 to €3,500. This has also likely had an impact on EV sales. The government has admitted that it will have to reduce those grants further as EVs become more popular, otherwise the scheme would end up costing the state billions.

My own analysis would be that most of the affluent urbanites who enjoy a bit of tree hugging paid for by other people's taxes, and all the directors who got company cars with zero BIK, have now loaded up. That's the target market saturated.