"Green" policies are destroying this country

There's only one person here who doesn't know about farming. I'll give you a clue, it isn't me.

You responded to my post with rantings and rubbish about seasonal produce not being a secret. I literally stated that meat isn't seasonal (apart from wild game) and yet you persist on posting a bizarre retort?

Several posters have explained that you know nothing about farming, some of whom are actually farmers, some are from farming families, but you seem to think doing silage is tillage and you made up some rubbish that meat is a seasonal product, then have the audacity to claim that me allegedly not knowing something is not your issue?

I honestly cannot understand what you are talking about, none of my post is incorrect, unlike your. Irish farm produce is amongst the best in the world. Our mild climates make meat production a viable year round option with minimal need to intervene with chemicals or require significant air miles to import. Anyone who really cared about global warming would be begging for more indigenous foods and less imports.

As for your quote about toppers, they have many uses. Cows are fussy and won't eat through weeds. Toppers help control them. However, cows also don't eat grass that is too long or is covered in dung. Toppers are mainly used to equalise sward heights, cutting anything not eaten on the present graze and ensures a consistent grass growth for the next rotation.

If ignorance is bliss then you must be ecstatic.

Before you I would not have believed anybody in this country knew absolutely nothing about anything related to agriculture and even after being shown they knew nothing still believes the availibility of fresh meat here is seasonal.

You would have been better served leaving it a long way back that continuing to show you know absolutely nothing on the subject.

Flogging a dead horse methinks. The same poster who's now lecturing us on agriculture is the same one who claimed Greens weren't proposing that we would be fossil free by 2050, and posted links to the wrong climate action document at least a dozen times in spite of being corrected every time.

Would have to agree with what he said but the ironic thing is that it was during his term in charge that the rot started.

Unfortubately you are most likely right. That poster just goes with the first thought that enters their head and when clearly shown how misinformed and incorrect they are, rather than throw up the shovel, believes that digging deeper is how to get out of a hole.

The BBC is worse than RTE, it has fully embraced activism in particular one Justin Rowlatt, the message permeates all it's productions. In the UK market SKY news follows the Greenpeace line, the only occasional skeptical viewpoints can be found on GB news or talk radio, the telegraph and Daily Mail tend to flit between both sides, while the Guardian is full throttle alarmist.

Who were the SECRET 28 who ended all climate debate at the BBC? • The Register. It took some time to extract the information including court cases. Here is the list. It included two Greenpeace campaigners, several other environmentalist activists, representatives of business, charities, the Church of England, BP and Npower Renewables, economists, media people and politicians. As for climate scientists they were very thin on the ground. 😀

Chistopher Booker (RIP) was a journalist who covered this scandal see The BBC and Climate Change: a Triple Betrayal (PDF)

If you thought Irish political corruption was bad, it does not hold a candle to the English, in particular the conflicts of interests of the likes of Lord Deben, Baroness Brown and others of the climate change committee. The reason the BBC gets away with this, all the main parties agree with the dominant climate change narrative and more importantly, follow the money, so does "the city". Even King Charles is making bank from the offshore wind turbines. The current labour government in the UK has appointed Ed Miliband.

Unfortunately this has serious implications for us here in Ireland, we are dependent on the UK for gas supply (Moffat line) , refining of petrol and diesel. We drive on the same side of the road, the UK car market matters to us. All the current electricity inter-connectors run to the UK. Any issues with UKs energy supply affect us directly.

Ed Miliband is putting Britain's future in the hands of eco-fanatics (archive.org)

It may sound like a parody. And yet, Ed Miliband, the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, has just effectively given Greenpeace control over elements of our energy policy. And we are well on the way to handing anti-growth, far-Left eco-activists far too much influence over our economic fate.

The trouble is, no one voted for that. And even worse, it will end up impoverishing us all. 

The North Sea had already become a hostile legal and regulatory environment for anyone still brave enough to try and make a living from exploring for oil and gas and delivering it to British homes and businesses, to keep the lights switched on and the heating running through the winter.

Friend of mine has planted 25 acres of native Irish trees in Leitrim over the last 10 years or so. All the native ash and larch trees are now dead. On a biodiversity level ie the insects, something has happened to our environment that is killing our trees and we don’t know why.
Look at every chestnut tree in Dublin. All the leaves are already brown, not due to autumn which is coming but due to a moth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-chestnut_leaf_miner
Our natural world is changing and not for the better.
But we are continuing to consume, dispose, replace. Look at all the bigger cars on the road from say 5 years ago. The amount of plastic we are producing and then just disposing is off the charts yet people don’t think twice about just dropping their rubbish on the ground. People’s egos and how they think they look to their neighbours and relatives is more important than protecting what resources we have left. It’s absolute madness.
I don’t know the answers, but once the insects are gone we won’t be very far behind.

Used to be Boomtastic! before the great hack of 2009. 🙃

The same greenies went on a crusade against burning wood too recently

So we are in a daft situation where rainforests in South America get chopped down, wood transported to Ireland and trucked across country only to be burned in power plants and this is considered “green”

While people here will find it next to impossible to find solid fuel stoves these days

Meanwhile I continue to take care of trees on my land and burn them in my closed stove which has its own external air supply (and can then use same wood ashes in garden), laughing at eejits who rely on expensive electricity for heating in winter (when solar is nonexistent too) and heat pumps that don’t work well and most time incorrectly installed

I find it hard to believe you don't know that fungal infestations are killing the ash and larch trees, especially since the fungus that attacks ash trees was first discovered in Co. Leitrim in a plantation that used imported ash plants. Whether we like it or not we live in world where you can be on the other side of the globe in 24 hours, we are also part of an EU open borders scheme, this means not only people but plants and their pathogens can be moved about with ease across the zone. Older generations may remember the spread of Dutch elm disease back in the 70s and 80s. It has been impossible to grow potatoes in this country without anti-fungal sprays due to the ongoing evolution of different strains of blight, fortunately the Colorado beetle (discovered on imported lettuce) has not managed to get a foothold here. The moths impacting the chestnut trees in Dublins leafy suburbs are just another addition to the biodiversity. Perhaps there is an opening for you to start a far right green party, call it an fís nua ar dheis (sic) to keep undesired biodiversity out.

Are you implying that anyone who doesn't rely of wood burning stoves for heat is an ejit or only those who disagree with you that a wood burning stove is an efficient source of heating when you have plenty of land from which to harvest your own supply?

Have both btw and for sure the HP is an efficient heat source for me. Only really use stove for added comfort during really miserable weather. But then again I have to buy wood which isn't that inexpensive really

EU competitiveness: Looking ahead - European Commission (europa.eu)

Finally, over time energy taxation has become an important source of budget revenues, contributing to
higher retail prices. source

Working my way through it, customary calls for EU subsidies and protectionism, more importantly there is an underlying assumption that "clean tech" is the answer even when it's irrelevant to the issues raised. The question can "clean tech" actually deliver the results promised is never asked.

Who is behind this whinging page?