Me too!

I’m looking forward to speaking at Friends of the Earth’s Earth Day conference tomorrow morning for Earth Day - how can we unlock faster and fairer climate action?

Seeing such fantastic artwork is brilliant, but it's time we ended this type of fossil fuel sponsorship.

We are calling for support to ban fossil fuel sponsorship and greenwashing in Ireland 🧵

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Instead of leadership like we see in Denmark, we get this. A 'commitment' to the derogation. While putting ineffective measures in place for nitrate & scrapping a potential retirement scheme for dairy farmers.

Farmers & the enviro are being failed here.

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Superb writing from Sadhbh O' Neill - 🍉End genocide now, highlighting that the “entitlement to drive a motorised vehicle should be regarded as a privilege, based on proper training & safe driving behaviour, not an automatic right”. Includes references to great research from Prof. Ian Walker on motonormativity.

'The farming sector has been warned for decades about its impact on waterways. Farm leaders pooh-poohed the warnings as red herrings & hysterical rantings of ‘the Greens’. They pointed at all the other issues: the urban waste discharges, and septic tanks up and down the country.'

Really interesting article by Sylvia Thompson about the book Dark PR by Grant Ennis.

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My neighbour ploughing furiously today while many say it’s simply too late now to sow crops. I don’t think we’ve any idea of the what’s coming in food prices #climatecrisis

Soup. On a painting.

'..🇪🇺 gov's dismantled state capacities in recent decades of neoliberal globalisation + austerity. They are now taking a...turn to deal with new climatic, demographic+tech'al challenges..we need to radically relocalise an expanding State to deal with these challenges effectively'

Such a great piece of clear, calm communication.

Interesting idea.

Ireland's top 10% of earners have carbon footprints between 3.8 & 35.8 times the size of the bottom half of earners, a new report highlighting how current government climate policies are failing women, Travellers, disabled people and other groups, claims
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'When we think of climate, time matters as well, because greenhouse gas pollution accumulates in the atmosphere..So..should we use our scarce + precious resources for individuals or...a specific industry? That's a conversation that needs to be had and needs to be settled as well'

Ahead of the final episode of #RisingTides tonight The The Irish Daily Mail has kindly published my top ten take away points from the whole series.

Based on this headline I thought an elderly man was driving a car, crashed the car into a lorry, then managed to drive away and died later.

But actually a pedestrian was dragged underneath a lorry for several miles.

The Charles Michel plan for next EC is basically to abolish the #EUGreenDeal
-climate just context, not an objective
-no nature, no env, no health
-1960's framing 4 farming (stuff adaptation, just production)
-no recognition we actually face a crisis
-deregulation is paramount

So when I heard Simon Harris TD was the 16th Taoiseach, I had a qualm, and feck yes, I now remember more than half the Taoisigh we’ve had in the history of the state becoming Taoiseach for the first time. #AnOldEnergy .

I was on BBC News (UK) earlier discussing the fact that we've just had 10 record breaking months in a row.

'What we're seeing is that these record breaking temperatures are causing huge devastation & extremes that are having catastrophic effects for peoples lives & livelihoods' 1/2🧵

Incoming Taoiseach Simon Harris TD has said that he is 'absolutely committed to addressing the climate emergency'.

I spoke to RTÉ News about what demonstrating this commitment would entail.
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