The UK, which is ahead of us, has nuclear. I wish the Green Party would switch their policy on this, it’s the cleanest way to replace coal and oil. Our energy demands are only going up, and with EWIC and the planned French interconnector, we could become not just energy independent but energy exporters.
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Good stuff, the greens are getting a lot of flak currently, but they’ve clearly had a positive effect on our environmental performance even as only the minor party of the coalition.
That’s because they’ve conveniently avoided Monaghan when calculating the emissions, with all the straight pipe 20 year old volkswagen diesels that would put us on par with Delhi lol.
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All we’re doing is exporting our emissions so we look good.
Banned briquettes and smoky coal but we just import it instead.
If anyone actually thinks our emissions are substantially dropping while we undergo record population growth you are naive.
The economy basically shut down during covid and emissions dropped something like 9%.
All these EVs and solar panels require rare earth metals. For every tonne of rare earth metals produced, it produces 2000 tonnes of toxic waste.
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Green effect 🤗
Very good but much more to do
We don’t really produce anything
The UK, which is ahead of us, has nuclear. I wish the Green Party would switch their policy on this, it’s the cleanest way to replace coal and oil. Our energy demands are only going up, and with EWIC and the planned French interconnector, we could become not just energy independent but energy exporters.
Good stuff, the greens are getting a lot of flak currently, but they’ve clearly had a positive effect on our environmental performance even as only the minor party of the coalition.
[But Ireland has the most expensive electricity in Europe](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/10/30/ireland-has-the-most-expensive-net-electricity-prices-in-the-eu/)
That’s because they’ve conveniently avoided Monaghan when calculating the emissions, with all the straight pipe 20 year old volkswagen diesels that would put us on par with Delhi lol.
All we’re doing is exporting our emissions so we look good.
Banned briquettes and smoky coal but we just import it instead.
If anyone actually thinks our emissions are substantially dropping while we undergo record population growth you are naive.
The economy basically shut down during covid and emissions dropped something like 9%.
All these EVs and solar panels require rare earth metals. For every tonne of rare earth metals produced, it produces 2000 tonnes of toxic waste.
[Rare earth metal mining site](https://www.interos.ai/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/042622_Interos_ChineseRareMinerals_1200x600-1024×512.jpg)
If only more pressing issues would be tackled as aggressively…