Sorry but Ireland isn't special outside the M50 and the huge numbers of farmers and rural communities with solar, wind turbines, signed up to re-wilding and bio-diversity projects.
Doing "What you can" in any emergency is pretty much everything as floods, excessive heat and fire do not require your opinion.
Everything is impossible until it is overcome and you have to try for your families sake and future generations at least
They are not all rural simpletons in the country and way ahead on insulation and SEAI grants take-up even though their representatives will tell them all sorts of backward nonsense as a soothing balm.
Further more the use of the word "Ideology" is completely disingenuous in a real world climate emergency existential crisis.
You might as well be saying to a building owner that all their fire alarms, fire extinguishers, escape stairs and alarms to protect the occupants are simply an "ideology" as just health and safety gone mad as sure anyway there is a volcano burning away in Iceland for 40 years.
We as a State will be facing huge fines if we do not meet our targets.......not as any political party or an individual.
International Banks will not invest in countries that do not take the required mitigation measures
Insurance companies across the globe do not treat it all as an "ideology" but a clear and present danger to property, infrastructure, life and limb.
Just ask the businesses in Midleton about "Particular geographies".
It is staggering to me the "Avengers Assemble" attitude any criticism of Ryan or the Greens invites.
I posted about him today on his stepping down.
And I've posted before he would have had more success and more seats and power to do what he wanted if he wasn't pushing an outlook that might apply in Dublin to the rest of Ireland.
I didn't mention farmers.
I didn't mention policies.
I mentioned ideology driven methods.....being so locked in to what his own personal view is that THAT becomes what he expects a government to implement. When for example, he could have parked that ideology, brought forward region or city specific proposals aimed at addressing congestion, pollution, climate change etc on a regional or targetted basis instead of a one size fits all when Ireland isn't Dublin.
That's what I mean about ideology driven methods.
If you believe in green policies and you believe in the green agenda, as you do, then you want as many people in the country to buy into it.
How do you expect an elderly man to make appointments in the CUH from Skibbereen using public transport alone?
How do you expect people to cycle from Carrigaline or Carrigtwohill to the city centre for work every day ?
Practicalities and pragmatic solutions for the country that all contributes and gets the buy in from all of our citizens not just those already bought into it.
