John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

Good point. I’ve never encountered a Zionist, online or in person, amenable to rational debate or even basic humanity. It’s a death cult.

No wonder the Democrats are fu#ked in the US when so many are staunch supporters of genocidal Zionism.

The day the racist colony of “Israel” disappears and the foreign colonisers go home is the day the Middle East finally enjoys peace.

Thanks Ola, glad you enjoyed!

Richard Curran: If there is gas off the Irish coast we’re shooting ourselves in the foot not licensing explorers to go and find it Things are bad when the British energy minister says the UK is “exposed” to rising energy prices.

Suppose it’s simply asking far too much to expect a senior RTÉ business journalist in 2026, as the #climate crisis deepens by the month, to have grasped that continuing to drill for fossils fuels is shooting ourselves in the head, never mind foot?

www.independent.ie/business/iri...

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Every time you think you’ve seen the bottom of USraeli depravity, they immediately lower the bar even further into the moral abyss.

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Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

In a world bristling with evil regimes, none is more thoroughly diabolical than the colonial ’state’ of Israel.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mind-boggling how little attention this gets in Ireland.

Some coverage in the Clare Echo alongside yesterday’s public interview at the Ennis Book Festival.

Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

As global warming accelerates towards apocalyptic conditions, rather than working to save ourselves, the great powers are instead pouring oil and raining bombs onto the gathering inferno.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

Meanwhile, Irish agriculture system entirely incapable of meeting fundamental food needs of our population, with its export-based model predicated on massive fertiliser, animal feed imports.

We are shockingly vulnerable yet nobody is even talking about it.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Great Hall in Ennis is a spectacular venue for this afternoon’s conversation at the Ennis Book Festival with Féidhlim Harty around THE LIE OF THE LAND.

It all kicks off at 2pm.

Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.

Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.

Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

John Gibbons in conversation with Féidhlim Harty - Ennis Book Club Festival The Lie of the Land is a fascinating critique of the decisions that have put Ireland into a  hugely  vulnerable position ecologically, and it serves as a devastating dissection of the wishful thinking...

Looking forward to talking part in the Ennis Book Festival this afternoon, where I’ll discuss THE LIE OF THE LAND and whither now for Ireland’s food and energy security.

ennisbookclubfestival.com/Event_slug/j...

Good point, many people still treat Ireland like we don’t really own it.

Pod of this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available.

We discussed the Iran war and Ireland’s energy vulnerability, plus Costa Rica and more.

www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks?

It Is a Real mystery alright.

Just finished this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM. We discussed urgent need to pivot away from fossil fuels from rogue states like Russia, US.

Also covered Costa Rica’s eco miracle – and MAGA’s surprising pivot to solar power.

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Thanks Pádraic!

Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

"Ireland’s staggering lack of national ambition on nature, #climate is in marked contrast to Costa Rica, which despite having a fraction of our wealth, has been able to meet fundamental needs of its citizens while respecting nature."

My piece in Irish Times today

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

These are c.10 km from shore. Difficult to put them out much further.

Or badger 🦡 conservationists!

Yup, when they blow up, it’s an absolute disaster. Windmills a lot less likely to cause an ecological catastrophe.

Nope, it was a gathering of folks who oppose this development as they don’t like the idea of it. But imported fossil fuels to fund wars, destroy the climate, raise sea levels and obliterate our coastline?
No problemo.

Shocking, the Danes must be up in arms!

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Aha! All is explained!

Many Irish people are going to really suffer from the latest fuel price hikes, but few of them live in prime real estate on Dublin’s coastline.

Undoubtedly.

Maybe it’s modelling sea level rise & coastal inundation? 🤦‍♂️