The Echo Chamber podcast.

Hosts Tony Groves (left) and Martin McMahon (centre) welcomes the Green Party’s Peter Kavanagh (right) in to the ‘tortoise shack’.

Martin writes:-

The government lost the vote and the PBP Climate Emergency bill was passed. So it was a great opportunity to be joined by Peter, a Green Party candidate for Dublin Mid West and Head of Communications and Public Affairs with Active Retirement Ireland.

We talk about what a Green Economy might look like; getting over the wind farm objections, the colonial mind-set and Peter’s work with the elderly….

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27 thoughts on “Green Shoots

  1. Sentient Won

    If a “green economy” means abandoning cheap and abundant hydrocarbons in exchange for expensive, unreliable and intermittent wind and solar then you can FRO.

    The German policy has been a disaster.

    Just say no to virtue-signalling ‘green’ numpties.

      1. Sentient Won

        That’s a bare-faced lie from the green propagandists.

        Remember the Peak-Oil meme from 20 years ago? 100% factually wrong.

        Oil has rarely been cheaper. There is a world-wide over supply.

        1. Yep

          The supply has more to do with what is being made available by the largest suppliers than it does with what’s in the ground.

          1. jusayinlike

            I will absolutely deny global warming..

            in the last 30 years the global climate has risen .5 of a degree celsius, that’s why nobody uses the term global warming anymore..

          2. Janet, I ate my Avatar

            I’m sitting here wishing I had taken the flu shot as it happens
            Hope you are all better Millepieds

        2. Nigel

          The cost of hydrocarbons includes not only the resulting pollution but also the entire horrific state of the Middle East and associated global repercussions. It’s never been cheap.

  2. Clampers Outside!

    The “colonial mind-set”…. or should that be the nonsense of “white guilt”… I’ll have a listen to find out, hopefully I’m wrong, and its not that regressive nonsense about inherited guilt :)

    1. realPolithicks

      Clampers, the classic “angry white male’ always looking for something to be “outraged” about.

  3. b

    So if this Climate Emergency Bill passes, it will be great success for Brid Smith

    but what of the $540bln worth of resources that she told us are being stolen from the people during the Shell to Sea campaign? Do we leave that in the ground?

    1. Taunton

      Even after being given the gas for ‘free’, Shell could not make a profit and are selling the Corrib gas project for a $1Bn loss.

  4. david

    The hypocrisy of it
    The IDA have rezoned a greenbelt in skibbereen not to make way for green industry by a plastics factory manufacturing unit which will add to the emissions that are exceeding our permitted quota guaranteeing the hundreds of millions of fines the EU will issue against Ireland
    These plants are more suited in somewhere like the Ruhr valley not on the wild Atlantic way
    The environmental impact regarding waste and possible toxic chemical waste or fires would destroy skibbereen
    Last year in the UK 300 plastic manufacturing plants went on fire
    The average fire took 6 hours to extinguish and 6 units of the fire department to do this
    The golden carrot is 20 jobs in this joint IDA funded and yes the taxpayer digging into his pockets to bring this dream to reality
    So much for the massive fines that are heading here for the breaches of achieving our EU quota and our government is going to add to more fines with this plant opened
    As usual the residents who will have to live with this cancer threat in their community will be ignored as the government sanction this

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