Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and behaviours, according to local media.
“Nudge” policies such as huge tax hikes, as well as bans and red tape outlined in the plan, will pave the way to a “vibrant” Ireland of zero carbon emissions by 2050 according to the government, which last year committed to boost the country’s 4.7 million-strong population by a further million with mass migration.
In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions”, according to transport minister Shane Ross whose proposals — which include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide — are posed to cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports.
Launching the plan in Dublin, leader Leo Varadkar outlined his vision for an Ireland of ‘higher density’ cities consisting of populations whose lifestyles and behaviours have been totally transformed by ‘carrot and stick’ policies outlined in the climate plan.
“Our approach will be to nudge people and businesses to change behaviour and adapt new technologies through incentives, disincentives, regulations and information,” the globalist prime minister said.
“We are going to change how electricity is produced and consumed, how our homes and workplaces are heated; the way we travel; the types of vehicles we purchase; and how food is produced.
‘Put an Empty Space to Better Use’: Irish Urged to House Migrants in Spare Beds https://t.co/jdK2OtYA2a
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 16, 2018
“It’s about vibrant, populated city centres, liveable, with excellent amenities and transport as we embrace higher densities.”
The document, which was unveiled on Tuesday, features more than 180 measures to decarbonise the Irish economy including making private car ownership prohibitively expensive — with petrol and diesel car sales banned by 2030, a date by which it says general carbon tax will be increased from €20 a tonne to “at least” €80.
In addition, the plans demand that coal and peat-fired power stations are replaced with wind farms and other “green” energy sources in order to meet the requirement that 70 per cent of electricity will be generated from renewables by 2030.
That is total insanity when the sun is in a stage that may takes us into another Little Ice Age.
The Sardine Effect will ensure anthropogenic warming, but has historically been a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic warming, followed by catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. Time will tell if their ulterior motives will prevail and the collateral damage. That said, politicians like it. Businesses like it, too.
The sardine effect virtually assures pandemics that will dramatically reduce populations, but perhaps that is their intent?
They do plan to bring in one million patient zeros from third world countries.
“HA”, the Sardine Effect of filling up your spare beds and bedrooms with wayward immigrants will either ensure an increase in population or abortions.
Ireland’s ‘Climate Emergency’ plan reads like a short description of a Stephen King novel.
The finalized plan will surely scare the bejesus out anyone that reads it.
“Agenda 21”, an internet book by Glen Beck, tells the horror tale of life under the climate Nazi rules. Perhaps this is what the loons in Ireland are shooting for. Isn’t Ireland the country that has drawn in several corporations for high-tech manufacturing? Kiss that good-by. Dumb, dumb, and dumber.
“What does ICLEI (pronounced ICK-LY) stand for? International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. It was created as a non-governmental spin-off by the United Nations in 1990 to implement Agenda 21 locally across the world. It is a membership organization for cities; 7,807 worldwide as of 2012.”
Here’s a map of ICLEI centers in EUROPE.
https://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/iclei-when-they-say-local-they-mean-it.html
It’s scaring the bejesus out of me, and I don’t live there! They’re literally going to destroy that beautiful, beautiful country! Is the government there totally insane??
They can kiss their tourist industry good-buy too. Who wants to take a holiday in a country where you are not allowed to move ? The beauty of Ireland is it countryside and nature, not being stuck in an even more crowded city.
The only mass migration they are likely to create is yet another exodus of those young enough to leave the country. There will be plenty of “spare beds”.
yes
Yes Paula,
They (we – I was once a proud Irishman) are totally insane.
Ireland has no natural resources, no grown up fossil fuels. The idiots in charge of the asylum think they can keep the population warm in the Deitch winters with bird mincing wind mills. They are not stupid enough to think they can get any energy from photo electric cells which would require the sun light which rarely shines in Ireland.
They have been totally indoctrinated and bribed by a special Hungarian “Gentleman” by the name of Gregor Soros or as I call him Sorearse.
He has already pumped millions into getting queer marriage, quicky divorce and baby killing legalised in Ireland. He has also pumped millions into the Marxist global warming scam. Of course the Marxist pope has played no small part in persuading my gullible country men that we have only 10 years to save the planet. This is despite the fact that us Catholics are bound to believe that Jesus Christ has already saved us believers from eternal damnation.
So yes – Ireland is doomed.
Greg June 21, 2019 at 10:38 pm
They can kiss their tourist industry good-buy too. Who wants to take a holiday in a country where you are not allowed to move.
Allowance to move for tourists is forced by b&b:
“A bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast. Bed and breakfasts are often private family homes and typically have between four and eleven rooms, with six being the average.”
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&ei=yn0OXdb6AoLLrgTbl4rwAg&q=bed+%26+breakfast+meaning&oq=bed+%26+breakfast+meaning&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
Thanks Johann , I have heard of B&B. That does not “force” anything. It depends upon visitors being able to move around. No one thinks of spending two weeks B&Bing in crowded city as a holiday.
The very word tourism implies being able to move. Not going somewhere where you are not allowed to move.
You are right – this sure smells of UN Agenda 21 and ICLEI an international mandate that is enforced locally. . . check out Rosa Korie.
Yeah, sure. /sarc
I’d say ‘revolutionize’ could be what can be called the coming ousting of loony lefties when they try to implement their —-expleting ‘ambitious’ and ‘revolutionary’ policy.
What could possibly go wrong
Venezuela 2.0 anyone?
Like North Korea from space you will exactly see where Northern Ireland ends and Ireland begins . I just wonder what tourists think of the idee. Are trucks also affected?
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. Theresa May is determined to see her carbon neutral by 2050 bill through Parliament, not that I can see her having any trouble doing that. What she hasn’t spelled out is what it would mean for ordinary folk. I am quite sure it is the very same plan Leo has put out in which case the entirety of the UK will look like North Korea, just like Ireland.
Ireland is a democracy. If the Irish public goes along with this, then they deserve the politicians they elected.
Ireland unfortunately has a history of disagreeing with official policy in ways that do not involve voting…
Wait, Ireland bills itself as a center of low taxation, low-cost manufacturing, and low labor costs. I can see how importing a million immigrants would necessarily keep labor costs down, but ramping taxes and energy costs will have the opposite effect.
The Irish aren’t obligated to stay in Ireland. They can go to any EU country. I’m sure Australia and New Zealand would welcome them, as well. The US is more interested in illiterate peasants, of course.
They would need to apply for a visa even as a tourist unless they have relatives here (And in NZ).
Adam, Middle Eastern and African immigrants don’t work….86% unemployed in pretty much all countries they infest. And rampant violence, acid attacks, stabbings, corruption, theft and home invasions… and pack rape of anything that moves. Lock up your pets at night, lock up your daughters all day and night and young men will have to get around in armed groups. They will long for the days of British occupation.
Anyone that would tour such a hell hole will get what they deserve, Ireland was always going to end up this way, contrarian to the better end. See all of Irish history.
If I lived there I would leave while my real estate had some residual value. But please don’t come to Australia, we have enough sociopathic idiots voting loony-tunes now thank you very much!
This lunacy can only be suggested by somebody who has no clue as to how anything works.
With everyone herded into urban centers who will be harvesting the crops?
Will all the livestock commit suicide an wrap themselves with plastic and leap into supermarkets?
Who will be running all the hectares of solar panels?
Who will be operating the electric grid? The utilities?
NONE of these things are located in urban centers…with very good reason.
Where do they think any of this will fit?
Surely the NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) are eager to accept a sewage treatment plant next to their apartment buildings. /sarc
Those lefty liberal “greeny” whackos are wanting to revert back to Medieval times when everyone lived in the town surrounding the Castle or Monastery to protect themselves from robbers n’ killers …. but had to make a daily trip out and back to their plot of garden space for raising their own food ….. with a share of it given to the inhabitants of the Castle or Monastery.
And, of course, how do they plan to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels without using fossil fuels, or for that matter, power their industrial sector? Pixie dust, I guess.
They run everything. You don’t actually think the government will pay the same as the citizens, do ya?
A friend of mine is in the concrete business.
He LOVES wind turbines…
HA! Of course he does, and so would I given that each wind turbine requires something like 2000 tons of concrete for the base alone. No co2 emissions there either.
Who will be running all the hectares of solar panels?
Who will be operating the electric grid? The utilities?
The ‘wee folk’ of course.
Robots is the answer to most of your questions….
This is going to start a lot of wars.
Higher densities will shrink.
It will be total stupidity / insanity whatever the state of the sun.
“Climate Change” is a subject that you cannot look at on it’s own. People sit listening to their 6 o’clock news every night to be told of the forthcoming climate apocalypse mostly do not realise that “climate change” is the UN’s main tool for imposing it’s agenda on us all. If you don’t know what that agenda is try reading about it, for it is no big secret. It isn’t some kind of loony idea put forward by conspiracy theorists akin to people who think the earth is flat. The UN clearly spells out it’s goals with it’s agenda for Sustainale Development. This amounts to massive lifestyle changes and lowering of living standards. For this you need a really good excuse and that excuse is the CLIMATE.—- “Climate change” gives the progressive/liberals the opportunity to bring in policies that they have always wanted whether the climate is changing or not. ——–As a former Canadian environment Minister once said “Even if all the science of global warming is phony, it still gives us the best chance to bring about justice and equality in the world” ————–WHAT?????????.
That’ll go down well, I don’t think. Its like a prelude to Logan’s Run
Or Pol Pot in reverse ?
More like Judge Dredd…
Max
You mocking a Judge?
3 years in the Cubes, Creep!
Definitely the Green Swastika of the week award.
Apparently Oregon is trying to do them one better, by sending armed police to drag Republican state senators back to the capital so that the socialists in control can pass a ruinous cap-and-trade law.
Oh yeah – I live there. It’s going to be bad too.
Not a sensible place to start if you want to get to Dublin.
It’s the Attack of the Potato Famine Part II.
This is the new 1950s monster movie era.
With petrol/diesel vehicle sales banned by 2030 you wonder what effect that will have on the second hand car market, and from when. Who would buy a new petrol car in 2025 that you won’t be able to sell in five years? So maybe you decide to go ahead and run it into the ground. But 2030 comes round and service stations start closing – there’s no market you see. By 2035 you are having to drive 20 miles to one of the few service station hubs remaining. Or maybe you figure that would happen and don’t buy a new car when you would otherwise have done. The car industry collapses.
or you simply vote the SOBs out of office
Ireland is a ward of the EU and massively indebted to EU banks. It is not a sovereign nation and now dances to the tune of its EU masters; much like it did to Great Britain in the past. It’s called the “Accommodation”. Very sad.
Very true.
“Ireland is a ward of the EU and massively indebted to EU banks.”
There’s UK banking units with Ireland-based arms,
Anglo-Irish banks and
Irish-Anglo banks.
Guess the hierarchy. Before thinking of EU dendency.
No, “Justin McCarthy June 21, 2019 at 2:32 pm” is correct. This is how when the EU tell Ireland to “Jump!”, the Irish respond “How high?!” It’s how the EU told Ireland to “Vote again!” on the Lisbon Treaty, so that the “correct” result was obtained. The UK is following suit with May and the Brexit disaster and so too will all other EU nations. Former eastern bloc nations, Poland etc, are resisting but they too will be brought (Punished/fined) in to line.
With an external debt approaching 732% of GDP, a bailout by the EU, and extended terms and lowered interest rate on said bailout; Ireland is living on the kindness of the EU. The once Celtic Tiger is now the EU Lap-kitty. Sad to say. One of the “I’s” in the term PIIGS during the economic crisis included Ireland along with Italy. But, Ireland has always been a victim of its more powerful neighbors. Hopefully, the EU dominance will be more benign than the Anglo-Norman hegemony.
Service stations will start closing LONG before 2030 – they just won’t be viable
That’s been happening for some time when cars could return more than 10mpg. I was told the same when I travelled in Ireland in the 90’s with a Landrover (About 25mpg and only a 10 gallon tank). And too in New Zealand in the mid 90’s.
I am glad I will be long gone when this comes to a head and it will not end well.
Service Stations have been closing for years across the UK – and, I believe, across the EU.
Why?
Partly economics – but that is in large part because of EU regulations about the replacement of old [reasonably effective] storage tanks, with new – effective and expensive – storage tanks, plus the associated machinery, and vapour-recovery systems. Mandated by law.
Makes the small, family business, stations uneconomic.
More for the big boys – but they will feel the pinch if/when electric cars become more than a rich kiddy’s toy.
We are forever told that batteries are getting cheaper [child labour in the mineral mines? Possibly not.]; batteries seem not to be getting appreciably lighter.
Auto
If electric is so wonderful … why don’t I see any of the spaces reserved for electric vehicles being used?
I’m sure there are many Brits who believe Brexit should now happen sooner…
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Thanks, fixed.
Well Ireland is a democracy, so there’s hope that voters will notice their life standards going to shit and vote this current deranged government out.
I suspect they need to work that out rather fast but you do have to admire a large country size social experiment.
I loved the comments by professor Michael Kelly the art of calling a spade a spade.
If this plan is put into effect, Ireland will no longer fit under the definition of a “democracy”.
A significant number or Irish people are leaving the country however the population is being replaced. You don’t see mass protests like in France because the people likely to lead these are gone. A large portion of the remaining native population relies on welfare programs and are economically inactive and not likely to rock the boat. Employment for those that stay revolves around the multinational companies. One of the consequences of the restrictions of H1B1 visas to the US is the American MNCs are importing that labor to Ireland and that is one of several factors pushing up rental and property prices here. It is not only native Irish families who are squeezed out, non-native people who try to rear families are feeling the effect as well and the middle class is slowly moving away just like in California. So overall the economically active population in the private sector is mobile.
Another factor given the dominance of the MNCs and American culture on both Irish and English Universities is the wholesale importation of the diversity inclusion equity social justice ideology which has seen politics shift from right of center populism to full on cultural Marxism which dominates politics in this country.
There are a number of factors though that will rip this apart.
1. Low interest rates have hidden the enormous national debt which ballooned in the wake of the 2008 North Atlantic banking collapse. That debt was offloaded by the state onto the backs of its taxpayers, if they did not the retired welfare class who vote en masse would have lost everything.
2. An artifact of the low interest rates has been the collapse in the bond market that has to be supported by the ECB combined with the collapse of the property bubble and bankruptcy of the firms involved has meant large chunks of property have been sold to foreign investors/pension funds who can earn a good rental yield compared to returns on bonds.
3. The primary driver behind this green policy is to be seen by the EU technocrats as being green and avoid the fines threatened by the EU for not meeting the targets that a previous generation of politicians signed the country up to. The govern-mint class does not like to rock the boat, their good fortune depends on the EU and they don;t want to rock the boat.
“ the fines threatened by the EU for not meeting the targets ”
Sounds like the 5-year plans of the old Soviet Union. Managers of factories and collective farms had to meet government-set targets, too.
Miss the target, go to jail. So, the managers cooked the books and everyone was happy, including the government bureaucrats.
Expect to see a similar culture of dishonesty grow up in Ireland, too, as they are required to meet entirely unrealistic goals.
Politicians expecting a (relatively) free people to choke down mindless, costly plans that will fundamentally alter (for the worse) their society, economy and energy systems. I’d love to see an honest cost/benefit analysis. And forcing suburbanites into crowded, crime-ridden inner cities?
What is Ireland’s percentage of worldwide CO2 emissions? Are the Irish politicians planning on marching en mass to China, India, Africa, etc. in protest of those nations lack of action on CO2 reductions? Or do they think their virtue signalling will change any rational nation state’s position on economic development?
Invest in Irish yellow vest makers.
Solar and wind will do great in Ireland. I never rains there.
and of course the wind never blows stronger than 35mph or less than 5 so wind conditions are also always optimal
And concerning that none of these geniuses are preparing for climate change to mean getting colder…snow.
“We are going to change how electricity is produced and consumed, how our homes and workplaces are heated; the way we travel; the types of vehicles we purchase; and how food is produced.”
We are going to change the way you live.
Not change but tell you exactly how to live, how to heat homes and workplaces (Like there will be any of those left), how to travel, how and what to purchase and what to eat. Anyone how has land and grows stuff had better protect it.
Similar to Cambodia in the ’70s
actually the reverse in terms of population demographics.
The Khmer Rouge killing fields was where the regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals.
The Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan renamed the country as Democratic Kampuchea and immediately set about forcibly evacuating the country’s major cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
You’re joking, right?
This is satire, right?
The ‘Onion’ isn’t even satire anymore.
Good luck with that one ……. Sheer Lunacy
All on a self-destruct mission of western civilisation
Behavior based extinction.
I swear the lunacy is reaching critical levels.
One man sees a possible temperature rise and resolves to adapt to it – a second wants to prevent the planet from changing – and insists the entire world be forced to join him.
Seriously – who’s the fool?
Most delusional headline of the year: “Ireland’s radical plan could stave off worst climate outcome”, an op-Ed in the Irish Times by Joseph Curtin – senior fellow for climate policy at the Institute of International and European Affairs and a member of the Government’s Climate Change Advisory Council.
Joe believes, or pretends to believe, that what Ireland does with its emissions levels will have measurable effects on the world.
Perhaps he looks forward to a lush job in the swelling climate bureaucracy that will rule Ireland, perhaps as a commissar.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ireland-s-radical-plan-could-stave-off-worst-climate-outcome-1.3928503
The will even have 5 year plans. Quote from the Irish Times article :
“Key departments – agriculture, transport, energy – who have always had a financial budget will now also have a carbon budget for every five-year period.”
If China and India aren’t on-board with massively cutting CO2 emissions (and they’re not) what Ireland does or doesn’t do isn’t going to make one bit of difference. Morons… all this virtue signaling will do is accelerate their country’s decline.
Imagine this stupidity in the absence of democratic rights which fortunately allow citizens to kick the fools out on the street for their ludicrous, illogical, childish and anthrophobic plans.
It seems the asylum’s worst inmates are attracted into politics.
By 2050 the only ones left in Ireland will be the Leprechauns.
I look forward to the next wave of Irish immigration into the US, as they run out of potatoes by 2050.
Now you can see the outcome of drinking too much Guinness.
Actually, Guinness puts hair on your chest and makes men out of boys. These sots are drinking hard cider or p!ss brew or something.
Or Bushmills, Jameson….
The Irish invented whiskey to ensure that they wouldn’t rule the world.
Ireland produces 0.1% of the world’s carbon dioxide output and this lunatic is planning to destroy their economy and their way of life to try to reduce it? Stop the planet, I want to get off!
Buh-bye, Ireland. We’ll miss you.
Especially the whisky and beer.
WhiskEy.
The Scottish stuff is without an “e”.
(Ireland has an “e”, Scotland doesn’t. Took me decades to figure that one out…)
[The mods note that, in fact and indeed, Ireland has an “e” in its whiskey and name, and Scotland does not have an “e” in either its whisky or its name. .mod]
If it has E in it, can we drink it at raves?
Coming to a country near you, too. Bu bye.
yeah….like Ireland is some world player…LOL
They aren’t even a blip on the radar http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCB2018/PNG/s11_2018_Projections.png
These are the same “City Idjits” that think food comes from the grocery store….Just sayin’…
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Sounds like cohesive socialism to me.