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Their home for 20 years, just retired..,that's just awful. It's going to happen more and more though is the unfortunate truth.

I actually wouldn't agree with that one (biased I guess). But birth rates are already falling all across the Western world. Interesting piece on it here: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/13/21132013/climate-change-children-kids-anti-natalism

I see you've jumped into the we're all fucked anyway so there's no point doing anything about it form or denial. But hasn't the latest modelling downgraded the worst case scenario? In really basic terms we're already at 1 degree above pre-industrial levels. But there's a huge difference...

You knew that heat will soon cause more death than all infectious diseases put together? Anyway, it was news to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/04/rising-global-temperatures-death-toll-infectious-diseases-study

Especially in this kind of weather where it's horrible to be stuck in a car and lovely to be on the bike.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0519/1139379-offshore-wind-planning/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0823/1070418-french-concern-about-brazil-fires/

https://www.thejournal.ie/retrofit-scheme-bruton-4765438-Aug2019/

Or better yet, stick our heads in the sand and do nothing.

The EU are somehow managing to fuck over their own farmers, whilst bolstering and emboldening a crazy, right-wing leader in Latin America and sticking it to the planet in two ways rather than one

It's pragmatic enough. John Fitzgerald is an economist isn't he? So we're (the EU) allowing 99,000 tonnes of South American beef to be imported AND we're (Ireland) bailing out the beef sector here? https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/brexit-100m-beef-fund-for-farmers-announced-1.3970515

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/farmers-could-boost-their-incomes-by-switching-from-beef-1.3967380

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/less-than-2-of-local-authority-vehicles-are-electric-or-hybrid-analysis-shows-1.3942856

Why though? Chernobyl was a monumental fuck up by people who had very little clue of what they were doing and the reactor wasn't fit for purpose even at the time. Thorium could be the way forward...

How do you square that? Fukishima, by far the biggest nuclear disaster in the past few decades, resulted in 0 deaths. Climate change threatens total annihilation of our species.

I'm increasingly coming around to nuclear as a stop gap. Modern reactors and a short lifespan lessens the risk. Still an expensive option though

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/ambitious-plan-to-cut-emissions-and-make-ireland-carbon-neutral-by-2050-1.3928776

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/climate-change-plan-carbon-taxes-seen-as-best-way-to-reduce-pollution-1.3897598