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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“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.
Sad to see the sun setting on a once great nation, over a phoney excuse for leftist takeover. The whole CO2 gambit is so shallow and transparent it’s amazing anyone believes it, yet here we are.
I thought it was a joke, so I was very surprised that the proposal is by the party in power, the Fine Gael.
I say go for it. We need a country to implement these policies so many are proposing the sooner the better, so the rest can watch and learn from the monumental failure to never do the same. At the point we have reached no amount of common sense will dissuade the green/left and they are starting to contaminate the liberal center as Fine Gael.
There is a huge contradiction. You force the population to live without cars on more expensive, less reliable energy while the economy tanks because most of the companies that went to Ireland due to low taxes are forced out. There is no way droves of immigrants will want to live there. Actually destroying your economy is a great way to discourage immigration.
Didn’t Canada just declare a Climate Emergency too?
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trudeau-Declares-Climate-Emergency-Then-Approves-Major-Oil-Pipeline.html
I don’t think all the Canadians, or geese for that matter, who snowbird in the US South will want to fly north anytime soon….
Will they count as undocumented immigrants too even if they came over our northern border?
Didn’t Ceausescu, the ex-Romanian emperor and genie of all genies try that ? Bull-dozering villages and packing their population in high-rise blocks ?
Looks like the virus spreads. Once I got to read the Swiss socialist party manifesto. Same player shoot again.
Plan is to pack the population in high-density premises in immediate proximity to offices and workplaces.
Eliminate the need and therefore the possibility for individual mobility, dozer down villages and suburb areas and other things nice.
Socialism agendas introduced by means of climate ? Why am I not surprised ?
Forcing the population into high-density cities — how is that pragmatically different from concentration camps?
Concentrating the citizens is the perfect system for a police state.
Yes, this will undoubtedly be a factor in the formulation of this plan (never to be admitted of course but it’ll be there in the unreleased part of the documentation) .
Just because one is paranoid it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
The “elite” really do seem to be openly playing for keeps. I suspect it’s because they know we are now onto them, slipping mask and all that.
Interesting times.
As I have just received a large lump sum payout on retiring, I shall get in early and invest in three or five pubs in Dublin.
I wonder if Irish leader Leo Varadkar will be living in a Dublin high rise containing over 1000 people? (Does he not know that the suicide rate in packed high rises is above the norm?).
There goal is for people to be living in a high-rise in a space just big enough for a person that is caged. Look up documentaries about this in Hong Kong. This is how the elite want us to live.
Ronald Reagan said that the most terrifying words in the English language are ”I am from the government and am here to help”.
This will not help the Irish image of being the butt of all jokes. I can see an explosion in Irish jokes. The other thing to watch will be the recharging a population of electric cars with a grid run purely by renewables. If you think that will work you probably will believe in leprechauns.
This is what happens when a nation gets drunk and makes policy.
There are no strangers, only jihadists you haven’t met!
Faith and Beggorah!
lol.
So it’s a “modern” version of the Highland Clearances?
You’ve come a long way, Ireland.
Do they really really expect this approach to be free of adverse consequences?
Really?
My guess is no when they also continue to increase the number of ever more repressive laws to control the same population.
It’ll all come out in the post conflict trials I guess.
It’s a cult … the followers are brainwashed.
Unfortunately Donb the Irish electorate have changed from a hard-hearted, relatively pragmatic Catholic country into a virtue signalling, ‘progressive’ pack of politically sheep. Literally, no politician or media person has bothered to investigate the science, so called, of climate. Hardly a day goes by when the “97% of scientists” meme is not trotted out in political or media platforms. Last week I heard a well-regarded radio and Tv anchor put a loaded question to a like-minded left-orientated guest that to prevent this planet “boiling to death in fifteen years” we must ban the burning of fossil fuels by 2030. Increasingly, the vast majority in the First World, rather than merely a significant minority that was the case even twelve months ago, have swallowed hook, line and sinker the bogus confection that is the new ‘science’.
The climate cult … are just doing what cults do.
There is a point if you realise a group of nutters have taken control of the aeroplane … that you have to decide to physically wrestle for the controls before they fly the plane into some building.
A more realistic plan would be first to build nuclear power plants to supply the bulk of Ireland’s energy needs. They next need to develop and manufacture their own all electric cars, trucks, and trains. The government needs to pay its people to convert to all electric appliances including heating and cooking to electrical appliances. How much do they think all of this is going to cost? I would think that global warming would make Ireland a better and more productive place to live. The additional CO2 allows plants to grow faster and hence boosts Ireland’s agriculture output.
The reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. If Ireland eliminated all burning of fossil fuels it would have very little effect on the over all radiant greenhouse effect which is dominated by H2O. What Ireland wants to do would have no effect on global climate but would most likely ruin Ireland economically. What Ireland should be doing is improving the economy so that Ireland would have more money to spend on infrastructure that will guard against the ravages of extreme weather events. People may not want to live all crowed together and have their freedoms taken away. Crowding everyone together will make everyone more susceptible to fast spreading diseases.
If this madness should continue, then expect to see the voters of Ireland
voting to join the UK in leaving the EU.
That would solve the present problem over the border between the two
Irelands.
MJE VK5ELL
They won’t get the chance and if they do, they will be forced to vote until the right result is achieved as happened with the Lisbon Treaty.
CNN founder Ted Turner wants a world with a population decimated to about 350 millions.
If applied at a planetary scale, this is the best way to achieve this goal as quickly as possible.
Turner has five children. Has he said which four he wishes had never been born, furthering his desire for a smaller population?
Too bad the fawning left MSM won’t ask him that.
Whatever happened to the rights of people to choose? 1984 here we come. I wish that some of these virtue-signallers would set up their own communities as a pilot case study and report back, if they can with electricity restricted, few imports, limited food choices, and bike riding to their holidays.
The problem here in Ireland is that the vast majority of us reaching our sixtieth year (and older) who grew up in the less-warm 1950-1980 period, have either not bothered to do the laborious independent research regarding cyclical ocean oscillations or have simply believed the confirmation-biased climatic hypebole that has been relentlessly promulgated on American, British and Irish television screens since Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. The worrying thing about the current Irish Government’s capitulation to climate evangelists is that they are the political party that most closely aligns to what used to be right wing. You want to see what the rest of the Irish Parliament want to do in the climate arena! But this is actually happening all over Europe. For the European Bloc to comply with the 2050 emission-free wonderland will cost in the region of €20-40Trillion, excluding opportunity cost.
As the Chinese and Russians laugh their heads off.
Excellent, I encourage all other countries, except the USA, to dive head first into such ambitious plans. We need more real world examples of what not to do.
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??
The Irish will soon revolt when they realize the impact on the brewing of Guinness.
To be sure.
I lived in Ireland in the late 70’s early 80’s, it was a depressing place. As an adult, if you had work it wasn’t too bad. If you didn’t work for the local council, schools, CIE, Waterford crystal (Factory long since razed) or somehow in the Church you didn’t work. Then in the late 80’s and early 90’s billions of Euros were invested in Ireland. The Irish implemented business friendly policies and taxes so much so many multinational HQ’s were setup there in Dublin. This proposal suggests the Irish leaders want to return to those depressing, desperate days.
How to lose an election without trying.
That is why the Climate Cult will eventually ban elections!
A target of 500,000 electric vehicles on Eire’s roads by the end of the 2030s is hardly banning private cars, is it?
(Eire has 1.9 million cars)
This article serially misrepresents the Irish plan.
I bet you haven’t been to Ireland, have you?
“Vibrant” mmmm there is a code word and a half. I wonder how they will know when they are “vibrant” enough? Can you be “vibrant” enough really?
I hear London is very “vibrant” these days. Glad to have visited Ireland when it was Irish, those days apear gone.
Vibrantly diverse?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonherald.com/2019/06/21/needy-citizens-go-without-as-portland-opens-arms-to-migrants/amp/