It’s interesting that US politicians, both Democrat and Republican, rarely condemn the obvious mass murder/genocide that Israel has been conducting in Gaza for nearly two years now. The reason? Many US politicians are funded by Jewish groups. You bite the hand that feeds you at your peril.
At this moment the National Ploughing Championships are occurring in Offaly. Lots of groups are represented there, but most eye-catching is the presence of stalls set out by the major parties.
What would happen if a major party decided to not attend? It would be noted and at the next election that party would suffer the loss of the farming vote. Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections 2024-2055 claims that agriculture is the single largest source of CO2 emissions and that they are unlikely to meet EU 2030 targets.
If there is no real change, Ireland in 2050 will be experiencing at a catastrophic rate the storms, flooding and general chaos that are already visible.
I was talking to a man recently and the subject of rural contribution to what will be a species-threatening future came up. He responded by saying that the South of Ireland was only “a fart in the wind” compared to big countries like the US or Australia.
That is a futile stance. If you want to test the validity or morality of an action, ask yourself what would happen if everyone did the same thing. If it would produce a global benefit, you may be sure your action is good; if it would make life near-to unbearable, your action clearly is not good.
Spike Lee years ago produced a movie called “Do the Right Thing”. It’s time Irish politicians and farmers did the right thing for their sake as well as ours. Nobody likes to bite the hand that feeds them. But except Irish farmers and politicians stop holding their noses and remove their hands from over their eyes and ears, they will soon reduce Ireland to a place that will be virtually unliveable in. It’s better to bite the hand that feeds us before neither they nor us, nor our grandchildren and great-grandchildren have hands or eyes or anything else.
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