Sorry, what now?

You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes.

Right so.

When a country like Ireland has had a big budget surplus for many years in a row... the fact that we have a housing crisis AND haven't fully transitioned to renewables for our energy grid etc. is either government incompetence or malicious intent. Other countries have done it with less. #SpeirGorm

This open letter to students at Georgetown university is extremely good

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Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

Gas. It runs on gas. Fuck these monstrosities.

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.

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Initially thought this would be rinse of Mamdani’s style of videos. But god it’s 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. It’s 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, don’t spend €900 million (price has tripled from an estimated €300 million last year) on an emergency reserve that requires €60 million annually to maintain. That’s not a strategic investment in our security; that’s a state burden. 2/

Minister blocked in bid to end scrutiny of law giving him power to approve gas reserve Darragh O’Brien had asked all-party committee to waive hearings on proposed gas reserve law

Mr O’Brien said however: “The 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 Bill” creates more risk than it removes. 1/

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Irish govt reps: It's complicated, or something.

Fucking gowls, the lot of them.

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

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.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

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.

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

COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.

Here's what 1,600 lobbyists gets you #COP30

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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s 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.

“However, 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.”

Who wants to place their bets on the chances of LNG only being used for “strategic reserve“ or whatever that means.

Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?

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...

“may 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 — but in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts.”

Number of tourists down 7.5% so far this year - CSO The number of tourists coming to Ireland is down 7.5% so far this year compared to 2024, according to data from the Central Statistics Office.

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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