'Action was taken and our fears were conquered': Varadkar inspired by his generation's acid rain and ozone layer threats

Varadkar at launch this afternoon. Image: Leah Farrell Varadkar at launch this afternoon. Image: Leah Farrell TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR said global efforts to tackle and repair a hole in the ozone layer when he was growing up could be replicated now to tackle climate change.

“These were real threats, not scare stories and action was taken, on a global scale, and our fears were conquered. The citizens’ assembly accepted recommendations from members of the public, representative groups and organisations before delivering its verdict on the measures needed to effect a change in Ireland’s carbon footprint.

In agriculture, it wants to expand forestry planting and introduce targeted changes to land management. “The impact on individuals on households is actually going to be different and it’s not a case of urban versus rural. On the effect of farming on carbon emissions, Varadkar said he believed consumers were concerned about the sustainability of the products they buy, and so it is in farmers’ interests to move to sustainable farming.

This carbon craziness has to stop.

It must be great to be in politics just now, what with everybody screaming at you to take their money and waste it pointlessly, and the ‘opposition’ goading you on to do more rather than less of it.

There's hysteria agogo -for the imaginary 'crisis' & the real brutal taxes scam

Lol, waste of time, sure we'll all be under water by then 🚣‍♀️

Will Ministers switch over to electric cars asap?

The greens do well on local elections.a month later Fine Gael are all about saving the planet. Bunch of muppets

He must be on the acid too

ESB are flooding the country with panels full of SF6 gas, a very harsh greenhouse gas , alternatives available why don’t greenparty_ie insist on its removal

The lunatics are running the asylum

About time. As was said last year, we should have carbon taxed the bejaysus out of ourselves to keep the radio jockeys happy.

So will he announce thousands of new charging points too.! Unlikely

The Acid Rain Hysteria turned out to be natural variation and forest diseases, no correlation between forest damage and air pollution could be shown.

The reason for this ! It's a warning that we are gonna tax the shit out of petrol/diesel,the cars that use it and people will just take it like we always do. Pity we're not like the French

willingaway

I think Leo is a big contributor to climate change with all the methane coming from his mouth.

If you dont have a driveway or garage how can you charge over night?

They are just guessing when electric car production will be the norm. If, hypothetically, no manufacturer builds electric cars then these targets would be scrapped.

Hahaha they are delusional at best.

Tax grab without the infrastructure Wait till the next election campaign, they'll all be tearing up and down the country and you won't see one electric vehicle in the convoy

Good luck with that. The government aren’t very creative with coming up with alternative energy resources yet there are plenty available and they cost a bit initially but pay themselves back over time.

Ya so I don't see how.. currently the cost of a typical electric vehicle is in region of €10,000 more an equivalent small petrol/diesel Nissan leaf start 29k while the Micra is 18k. Well?

Another excuse by our inept and corrupt government to up taxes and pocket more of our money while actually doing sod all

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