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.
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— 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.
Shhh… don’t tell them that all this effort may reduce global temperature by only a small fraction of 1 degree by 2100. Let them ruin their economy and devalue their currency so we’ll have a favorable exchange rate when we vacation there. Cheaply.
As yes, verdant green fields, spinning windmills and no cars to drive the coast from Limerick to Galway.
theyll have to stop using the horses as meat and use them for transport again;-)
I’m sure Irish Equines will be the only happy ones about this lunacy
The Central Statistics Office in Ireland has a useful web database of weather data since 1958. For example, see below for temperatures:
https://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?Maintable=MTM02&PLanguage=0
So one can click on ‘mean temperature’ on the top menu box, then below the orange tick on the left to highlight in that menu box below all the meteorological stations in the Republic of Ireland, while moving similarly over to the right hand side menu select with the same orange tick all the weather data since 1958.
Hit ‘Show table’ below
Then when the new window opens, click the little blue arrow next to the drop down menu ‘Line chart’
What pops out then is a most wonderful representation of Ireland’s Climate Emergency!!!!!
Many people have already enjoyed the read below about the reality of the situation in Ireland:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:adcc4547-52fa-45b6-9271-4ca0fc505941
Let’s put it this way, as our so called leaders divorce themselves more and more from reality, people will start to notice and waken from their current slumber, it’s a slow process here in Ireland compared to France, but it does happen over time. The ‘establishment’ is loosing both its grip on reality and the respect it once had among the general population. For instance, the 100 year celebration of the glorious revolution, which lead to the foundation of the State in 1916, was conspicuous by a general apathy among the majority of citizens, who know only too well that the State just constantly preys upon them for more and more money, while giving less and less in return.
Pat, thank you for showing me that not everybodyin my native country has gone crazy! It’s just their government! I;m sure you’ll do something about it eventually– i.e., change the government! — when enough people sober up.
I like to quote the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh:
“The whole hysterical passing show,
“The hour apotheosized
“Into a cul de sac will go,
“And not even be despised.”
Or: this too will pass.
Rather pointless as we are all meant to be dead in 12 years!
When a market mania begins the price per unit (stock price, price per tulip bulb, etc) begins to rise on an exponential. The demand for more left-wing ideas or “solutions” seems to be exponentiating in the Anglosphere–I think the Irish are part of that. Smart money always leaves the mania early.
In short, it will be a Brave New World. What a visionary.
The world needs more citiots. The hive takes precedence.
I read that with the “o” transposed and thought why Yes it Does
Sounds like Authoritarians are running amok in Ireland. They’ve got it all worked out for you!
Well, one good thing about it, this will give us another “crash-test dummy” to show the rest of us what *not* to do in the way of running a country.
Look what those dishonest climategate charlatans have done! They have driven a good percentage of the Western democracies insane over unwarranted fears of CO2. Ireland appears to be especially hard hit.
An obvious sign of the Great Irish Intelligence Famine
That’s scary stuff.
… fight and die for hundreds of years to try and throw off foreign rule. Then invite/embrace crippling self rule.
I thought it was only a crass stereotype that the Irish are thick.
obviously not;-)
The plan itself is a loony-tune parroting of UN-speak and EU-speak platitudes.
https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/climate-action/publications/Documents/16/Climate%20Action%20Plan.pdf
The Irish seem to have turned into sustainability bumpkins. How many years before they wake up to destruction of their economy?
That’s all part of the UN’s agenda 21 right there to force people off the land including ranchers, farmers energy workers, loggers and miners, and herd everyone into cities. Of course, without any resources or jobs, how long will they last. Not very long is the answer.
Agreed. The sooner people wake up to what the elites are trying to pull, the sooner it can be stopped.
I’ve had people – friends! – literally laugh in my face when I bring up Agenda 21.
They will literally endorse any ridiculous conspiracy theory, so long as it’s on their side of the fence, but will deny a very open, highly-publicized movement, with documentation, right in front of their eyes.
Meanwhile Oregon Governor Kate Brown continues to hunt down recalcitrant republicans – while their own legislature hides from protests behind the state police.
Just got an update – now she’s fining them $500 a day until they bend to her will.
Resurrecting a feudal society using an alarmist climate ruse (aka, climate crisis BS) is all this is.
Feudalism:
-Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. (Ya’ gotta get the riff-raff of it first, and stuff them into urban slums where they can be monitored and controlled)
– feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs.
– includes not only the obligations of the warrior nobility but also those of all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry bound by Manorialism;
– Where Manorialism was an organizing principle of rural economies which vested legal and economic power in a Lord of the Manor. He was supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor (sometimes called a fief), and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction and that of his manorial court.
– The clergy is this case are the climate priests and their IPCC climate scriptures of the Climate Apocalypse.
Another one of those ‘they’ll never do it’, proved wrong by the axiom: ‘they’ll do it the very second they can’.
The Fourth Reich lives.
The amazing thing is, I still see bumper stickers around here, on the cars of progressive idiots, saying oh-so-piously: ‘vote like your rights depend on it’.
How many rights do progressives demand be stripped?
It is now time to institute compulsory sanity checks on all western politicians. Looks like Theresa May and Leo
Varadkar should be at the head of the queue with Occasional Cortex closely following behind.
Well, nothing for us non-Irish but to watch and see how it all works out.
The Irish voters, of course, get a vote. If they don’t like what their government came up with, they can vote them out of office. It happens a lot.
A plan straight out of Agenda 21.
Markl,
Better than your one line swipe at Agenda 21, why don’t you write a blog post for WUWT about the pros and cons of Agenda 21 for the general education of the readership. Try to be useful. Geoff
I’ll do it! Agenda 21: All cons.
Looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope, its clear that the whole ‘Climate Emergency’ malarkey is impossible to disprove for most people by the use of common sense, so could it be that the Irish G is adopting the tack of bringing home to folk just what it would mean to the man on the Cork omnibus ?
Clearly the thought of replacing all IC vehicles with electric in a decade is beyond delusion, and will result going forward in shed loads of people either expressing resentment at being stuck with unusable items for which they spent thousands, or as noted above, folk holding off purchases. Both possibilities must be the worst scenario’s possible if presented to the boardrooms of motor manufacturers, on whom much of the western economy is dependant.
The only way that one could possibly ameliorate the vast numbers of potentially pissed off punters, would be for the G to effectively pay for everybody to switch to electric, maybe buy handing in an IC vehicle ? And I’d have great doubts if there is enough money in Ireland, or anywhere else, for such a magic trick to be pulled off ?
All of the foregoing does not even take into account the fact that electric vehicles have yet to become available in any range of choice, with those that are available tending to be in the upper segment of the market. And also the fact that a total switch to electric must involve maybe a doubling of generation infrastructure at a time when (in Europe) the energy utilities are in no position to invest in projects that require a payback time of up to 30 years or more.
So all in all, another version of Mao’s trick of scaring off Starlings 🙂
“…electric vehicles have yet to become available in any range of choice….” As far as personal vehicles there are more of them for sale than you think. However the “range” is they are all expensive in comparison to the ICE equivalent.
Idiocy of the first magnitude! Do *any* politicians today consider *any* practical impacts of what they propose?
Suppose your car runs out of battery power 20 miles from the nearest charging station? What are you supposed to do? Suppose your tractor runs out of battery power in the middle of an 80 acre field miles from the nearest charging station? What are you supposed to do? Today you can go to the nearest farmhouse and get a can of gasoline or diesel fuel and get yourself to a refueling station. How are you supposed to recharge your vehicle when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere?
Um…who left the door to the nut-house open?
This will last right up to the first time they try to take away a private car.
Oh yes; cities have been proven to be such crime free low stress environments where everyone loves and trusts their neighbors.
I suppose that means Ireland must give up all industry and agriculture or do they plan to run nonstop buses to the outlands?
Meaning, in spite of world wide evidence against, they plan to install renewable energy sources while destroying coal and gas energy generating facilities.
I wonder where they plan to purchase electric tractors, tillers and combines? Must be a lovely dream world, where Leo Varadkar lives.
This has become a left mania where each left group tries to become the most politically correct government in the world.
The left is the same group that has said deficits do not matter now. (See US Democrat presidential campaign promises. Compensation for historical wrongs? We cannot pay for the current programs.) Rich countries have better benefits than poor countries with high joblessness.
Implement policies which are very, very expensive, that will destroy the economy, and then increase immigration to increase joblessness rate and social problems.
It is impossible for basic engineering and economic reasons to get to zero carbon emissions using sun and wind gathering. Germany has proven that. Germany has substantially reduce subsides and increased the separation distance of wind farms from residents as CO2 emissions did not drop as more wind farms were installed. (i.e. Germany has reached the point where energy storage is required, 29,000 wind turbines.)
Those schemes fail at the point where electricity storage is required and when the super high electrical prices kill all local industry that requires heat or electricity.
It shows you what disastrous things can come out of late-night ThinkTank Sessions when the Irish get stuck into the Guiness and Potein.
Our friends in Ireland had hundreds of years of being held in a state of poverty, submission and hunger by English overlords. Now they’ve had almost 100 years of running their own show – and 50 years of handouts from Brussels. Perhaps euro-prosperity is wearing thin; perhaps they’re getting nostalgic for the good old days of being victims of brutal oppression. So they’ve decided to do it to themselves this time.
Well, it’s a theory (/sarc)
That’s not far from the truth IMO.
“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.”
As I recall, more or less exactly what Vaclav Klaus warned us all about years ago.
How are they going to get food into the city without vehicles? More importantly, how are they going to build and run sanitation departments which are not located in the city?