Reduction of fossil-fuel emissions: what's the point?

No, it shouldn't. Ireland should be looking to reduce reliance on fossil fuels as much as is possible.

well if you want your kids, grand kids, nieces and nephews to have the ability to survive on the planet, so yes, there is bloody point, but taxing and indebting the bollcoks out of folks is not gonna work, states have to seriously step up, take on a serious amount of debt, and take their fingers out of their holes, if we can create billions and trillions in debt for military purposes,we can also do the exact same for environmental reasons!

I normally avoid climate discussions on boards because of flat-earthism/general stupidity.

This will be a drive by posting.

To answer the question, well too much damage certainly has already been done, with much of it 'baked in'. It is too late. However, to stop it being even worse we have to reduce/eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.

Like if I have my car smashed up with lump hammer, it is best to stop before the windscreen gets smashed, rather than just carry on anyway because it's only that doors don't open properly.

"We'll have to at least double the carbon tax..."

I'm not convinced carbon taxes are the best way to convince the general public to cut fossil fuel emissions. The cost of a non fossil fuel reliant alternative may well be outside the economic capacity of many so by taxing simply on carbon emissions you maintain the person not able to get an electric car for example in a greater level of poverty with no real benefit to the environment. These taxes hit the least well off in society most.

We also have daft strategies like cutting production in our own methods of keeping grass fed cattle in the least environmentally damaging means of producing beef globally, to simply end up with a much higher price in beef, which will very likely lead to an increase in deforestation in other parts of the world to make room for cattle grazing there or even worse with the industialised production of animal feed for beef reared on feed lots with crops like soya bean grown on the former rain forest. This will be most damaging in areas of tropical rain forest that soak up vast quantities of CO2 and help regularise climate patterns in some of the poorest areas with some of the most vulnerable populations in the world.

Climate change is happening and we need to maintain food production to avoid mass starvation on a global scale so to attack food production in this country in the name of reducing emissions when the net effect is global emissions increasing and the absorption of these emissions being reduced makes no sense.