From peat for power to beef production, Irish and EU subsidies help to make polluting profitable. Last year the rest of the EU cut emissions but Ireland increased them.
We can’t kick everybody out of Clontarf and Sandymount. So we’d better have a good plan for how to protect them from flooding, which means more than building a view-blocking wall.
The council will soon consider two new climate-change strategy documents, and councillors have a host of energy-conservation and transport-transformation ideas.
