Ok, here's a challenge for you. Buy a half dozen bananas this evening. Bring them home, store half of them in a bowl with apples, oranges and other fruit. Put the other half into a closed plastic bag well away from other fruit. Leave them there until say Saturday, and check the condition of both lots. There will be a stark difference between them.What's bananas about the banana packaging is that that the banana actually comes in the most eco friendly packaging
But we as humans think we can improve on it while forgetting that nature doesn't make mistakes
I don't need to, as a cyclist I buy and eat bananas on a regular basis rather then foolish spending my money on energy gels and suchlikeHere's a challenge for you. Buy a half dozen bananas this evening.
But let me ask you a question
How long do you think a natural product should last, is a week not long enough!!
As I said above, there is a tradeoff between packaging and food waste.Or do you think we should be adding more plastic waste to our systems just so as it can stay fresher for a day or two longer
I am all for more offshore wind, and LNG.
Yet even Minister Ryan himself, no doubt a massive supporter of offshore wind, has stated that "it takes a month to build an offshore wind turbine and seven years to get the permissions".
I wonder has he done anything to remove the blockages / permissions / consents?
He appears to remain very much in favour of the right of any citizen with a bee in his/her bonnet to object to almost any proposed development on the basis that the local rats, slug or cockroach population may be affected adversely. Hence his stated desire to see interconnectors installed from as many other countries to Ireland as quickly as possible. It's probably much quicker to design and install an undersea electricity cable from (say) New Zealand to Ireland than it is to get planning permission for a wind farm in Leitrim!
Perhaps because the death of the planet will take generations and in the meantime, the wealthy will be able to afford measures like air-con and filtration, better food, and to live in more habitable places.Why exactly are people getting in a huff elsewhere on AAM about pensions if no-one gives a hoot about the planet we plan to explore in retirement? Does inheritance tax even matter if future generations are going to spend all their money trying to fix everything we are destroying?
Post of the year. I especially enjoyed this bit...So far I have learned that people are sick of doing the bare minimum to care for the planet because:
This is like a fever dream scripted by Ayn Rand and Franz Kafka.
- Recycling is annoying
- Bicycles are annoying
- A politician is annoying
- The same government leader was planning to take a flight in order to do his job
- His political party is doing things they said they would do
- The party is also not doing enough of the things they said they would do
- The party is trying to improve things but is not doing it perfectly
- People who never voted for the party are going to continue not voting for them
- Former supporters will now vote for less eco-friendly candidates as a punishment (seems logical)
- A footpath was replaced
- Envelope design is annoying
- Someone's friend didn't text them and it hurt their feelings (fair)
- Some other countries are not doing enough so we shouldn't bother
- Some countries are doing more than us
- Various random individuals are disrespectful so we should behave like a melodramatic tragicomic curmudgeon from a TV show
- Banana packaging is a contentious issue, particularly in Reykjavik
Why exactly are people getting in a huff elsewhere on AAM about pensions if no-one gives a hoot about the planet we plan to explore in retirement? Does inheritance tax even matter if future generations are going to spend all their money trying to fix everything we are destroying?
High-earning, child-free couples are paying €€€,€€€ per year in taxes to subsidise the children and grandchildren of people so separated from reality that they are not willing to accept the mildest of inconveniences to ensure breathable air, drinkable water, survivable summers, and a stable food supply. Maybe people should be able to opt out of that obligation too if they are tired of it.
Can you at least give more details? What is he taxing and why? What behaviour is he punishing? Or should we say disincentivizing (possibly to generate revenue to be used on something worthwhile)?I am seeing Eamonn Ryan and the Green Party every day saying something in the paper about taxing us more, punishing us more.
Now there's a novel thought! I try to be as green as possible and can't think of one situation where being green has caused someone else to be less green - would be interested to know your experience of this?Being more green is like having teenagers around where you dance attendance on them no matter what. Don't answer every whim and soon they'll get the message and start to do something for themselves. It's the same being green, the greener you are the less greener everybody else becomes.
I dont think that is a fair reflection, like anything there is a balance to be struck. He has been https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2023/03/23/painfully-slow-planning-decisions-are-holding-ireland-back-says-ryan/ (vocal) that the planning system needs reform . Interconnection is a necessary part of a renewables based energy system. You can learn more about the importance of interconnection in the Govt's policy on the matter
Certainly important, but only half the story. At least as important is the ability to export power when the wind is blowing.I am well aware of the importance of interconnection. It allows us to avail of other countries' surplus electricity (irrespective of how it was generated!) when our wind farms aren't working
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I am well aware of the importance of interconnection. It allows us to avail of other countries' surplus electricity (irrespective of how it was generated!) when our wind farms aren't working, as well as enabling the government's (especially the Greens') desire to grandstand about Ireland being a nuclear energy free-country! It's a cynical strategy that fools most of the sheeple, right enough!
I'm also impressed to see that you're impressed by Ryan's "vocality" on the need to reform the Planning System - while preserving the right of every half-baked nutjob to lodge whatever objection takes their fancy. (My experts inform me that this can best be described as the Tadgh an dá thaobh approach, much beloved by Irish politicians!)
Of course Ryan was also "vocal" about Rossport and Shell to Sea - would you care to remind us when he did his 180 degree U-turn on that core principle?
"Among the key aspects of the Bill is the introduction of new restrictions on parties that are eligible to seek judicial reviews of decisions by An Bord Pleanála. Applicants must have “a sufficient interest in the matter”, and must be “directly or indirectly materially affected”.
There is also closer scrutiny of complaints surrounding “significant effects on the environment”, as the Bill demands that organisations mounting challenges on these grounds must be in existence for a minimum of a year."
Maybe that doesnt go far enough and you have a fundamental disagreement with peoples right to object? Whether the bill has the desired effect, time will tell.
Now there's a novel thought! I try to be as green as possible and can't think of one situation where being green has caused someone else to be less green - would be interested to know your experience of this?
My understanding of what Leper wrote is not that everybody else has suddenly started to be less green but that you have become more greener and like a reformed smoker normally more pious about your life choices compared to othersthe greener you are the less greener everybody else becomes.
On our rural by-road, really a glorified lane, we regularly find the remnants of an entire family's McDonalds drive-through meal. It's likely that it's the same family doing it all the time and they have children young enough to be eating Happy Meals.On my every Sunday morning walk there are always fast food wrapping on the roads from the night before. As it takes less than a minute to drive from the M9 service station to this road it seems that the food is eaten in the car at the car park and because it is an inconvenience for them to put the wrappers in the bin they wait and throw them out the window on their way home for someone else to pick them up .... usually me .
So you can have all the green flags you like and all the teaching in school about the environment but the lazy so and so ,'s will as always do what they always do, whatever they like
"Is that true? A lot of the increase in the Westen population is from the aging population. It would ve interesting to see a reliable analysis breaking this down.
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