The Great Hall in Ennis is a spectacular venue for this afternoon’s conversation at the Ennis Book Festival with Féidhlim Harty around THE LIE OF THE LAND.
It all kicks off at 2pm.
Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.
Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.
Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Looking forward to talking part in the Ennis Book Festival this afternoon, where I’ll discuss THE LIE OF THE LAND and whither now for Ireland’s food and energy security.
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Good point, many people still treat Ireland like we don’t really own it.
Pod of this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available.
We discussed the Iran war and Ireland’s energy vulnerability, plus Costa Rica and more.
www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks?
It Is a Real mystery alright.
Just finished this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM. We discussed urgent need to pivot away from fossil fuels from rogue states like Russia, US.
Also covered Costa Rica’s eco miracle – and MAGA’s surprising pivot to solar power.
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Thanks Pádraic!
"Ireland’s staggering lack of national ambition on nature, #climate is in marked contrast to Costa Rica, which despite having a fraction of our wealth, has been able to meet fundamental needs of its citizens while respecting nature."
My piece in Irish Times today
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
These are c.10 km from shore. Difficult to put them out much further.
Or badger 🦡 conservationists!
Yup, when they blow up, it’s an absolute disaster. Windmills a lot less likely to cause an ecological catastrophe.
Nope, it was a gathering of folks who oppose this development as they don’t like the idea of it. But imported fossil fuels to fund wars, destroy the climate, raise sea levels and obliterate our coastline?
No problemo.
Shocking, the Danes must be up in arms!
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Aha! All is explained!
Many Irish people are going to really suffer from the latest fuel price hikes, but few of them live in prime real estate on Dublin’s coastline.
Undoubtedly.
Maybe it’s modelling sea level rise & coastal inundation? 🤦♂️
That would make a very interesting case.
Oh the Humanity! Scrape my eyeballs out, it BURNS!
Yes, it’s quite an eyeful, mais oui!
Sea views, property prices, etc etc. aka
NIMIE (not in my immediate eyeline)
For reference, the developer’s composite image is on the right (as part of planning process, these are legally required to be an accurate representation of the likely final visual impact).
At public meeting on offshore wind farms in Dublin last night, speaker’s Gotcha slide featured monstrously huge turbines looming over Dublin Bay (below, left).
When I asked him to confirm this image is technically accurate, ie verifed by an engineer, turns out nah, Photoshop quickie.
Media’s pro-Western bias is often blatant, sometimes subtle but always omnipresent.
Below is an example of the latter.
Like all those schools, hospitals, kindergartens flattened in Gaza, probably not targets either. Just very unlucky I imagine. But when lives are so cheap, who cares if it’s accidental or deliberate?
When the target of the much-vaunted “precision weapons” deployed by Israel and its puppet, the US is a girl’s primary school, with 150+ defenceless children massacred, you’re left in no doubt that this is state terrorism and the perpetrators are vile criminals.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Allowing non-resident tax fugitives such as the 4th Viscount Rothermere to own major media outlets poses a truly grave risk to democracy.
