tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all
tell you what lads, maybe getting ourselves off gas and oil wasn't such a bad idea after all
This man just removed the passenger cap at Dublin Airport! He is nothing more than an environmental vandal, a nihilistic wrecker of our shared future. How dare he speak about decarbonisation? Absolutely full of it.
Spainβs PM: βThe time of hiding behind servers is at an end.β
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
Initially thought this would be rinse of Mamdaniβs style of videos. But god itβs so refreshing to see accessible Green Party communication. So simple. @greenparty.ie would benefit to have this type of coms.
The real threat is that this bill will allow for the proliferation of private energy-intensive industries, such as data centres, to run rampant. Itβs a scapegoat for the Government not investing in public infrastructure to meet energy and housing demands, let alone climate goals.
If you want energy security, donβt spend β¬900 million (price has tripled from an estimated β¬300 million last year) on an emergency reserve that requires β¬60 million annually to maintain. Thatβs not a strategic investment in our security; thatβs a state burden. 2/
Mr OβBrien said however: βThe risk of not having a gas reserve is one that cannot be ignored."
Luckily blocked for now. But it needs to be evidently clear that the "Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Billβ creates more risk than it removes. 1/
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Government to fast-track fines for tech companies over Al abuse
Cabinet to sign off on plan to build more data centres across country Electricity demand from data centres has grown from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 22% in 2024.
βThe abusive tool must be heavily regulated, which is why this government has authorised the construction of more of the environmental destructive infrastructure it needsβ.
Irish govt reps: It's complicated, or something.
Fucking gowls, the lot of them.
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
Itβs a feature.
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Transforming lives, from the bottom up, with no need for imperial wars.
Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.
* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.
Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
And this is just getting started on a global basis.
2026 will be a fascinating year in the world of energy.
mend it, don't end it.
#COP
This a big deal: "Chinaβs carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
βHowever, he said none of this changed his view that the State needed to invest in LNG as a strategic reserve and he did not believe it was a contradictory stance.β
Who wants to place their bets on the chances of LNG only being used for βstrategic reserveβ or whatever that means.
I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.
But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.
I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...
βmay every future billionaire who writes about Ireland be haunted, not by ghosts, but by the stubborn, unprofitable truth that a republic is measured not in financial investment β but in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts.β
One way to reverse this trend?
Start bringing nature back to Ireland via major rewilding.
People will be ever less interested in visiting a country that's ever more devoid of the indigenous ecosystems that should make it special.
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Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.
The *seventh* debate of #Aras25?
One of the most common #ruralpursuits is: driving huge distances to access life saving emergency medical care. Limerick, Clare & Tipperary North all served by the one ED.
It is interesting that he chose to harrass Connolly, who has never been in government, rather than Humphries, who was a cabinet minister when the Gender Recognition Act was passed.
It's almost like it's not really about what he says it's about, isn't it?
Her name IS Heather to be fair to him... It's just unfortunate that the real heather caught fire while she was left in charge of it.