Gluaiseacht for Global Justice

This week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM coming up after 5.30 today. We’ll be discussing sprat overfishing, Dieselgate death toll & insect population collapse.

We here at Save Our Sprat want to stop the indiscriminate fishing of Sprat in Bantry Bay to ensure its future as a key link in the food chain on which our marine life and the people around the Bay are dependent on.

Industrial scale trawling threatens the complete collapse of sprat populations on which the incredibly rich marine ecosystem of Bantry Bay depends.

SAVE OUR SPRAT is campaigning for a moratorium on all such activity until the species recovers.

Please join or support us!!
www.saveoursprat.ie

Ireland on a journey from solid fuel to clean and green Patrick Bresnihan, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, reflects on Ireland's ongoing evolution towards renewable energy

Short piece on Ireland's historic energy transition.

'At a time when Ireland is doubling down on its dependence on US fossil fuels with Shannon LNG, we should remember our historic struggle for energy sovereignty against Western imperial powers.'

www.irishexaminer.com/special-repo...

Making the connections between energy, decolonisation and anti-imperialism are more important than ever.

This online conversation between @socialrightsirl.bsky.social
and Eoghan Harris is today at 4pm.

Seas off Cork a 'marine desert' due to overfishing of sprat, says owner of whale-watching business Skipper Colin Barnes said the whales have left his search area of ocean off Cork because the sprat they feed on has been fished to near extinction

"Seas off Cork a 'marine desert' due to overfishing of sprat, says owner of whale-watching business."

Sprat, the basis of entire ecosystems, is being hoovered out to turn into fishmeal, an *insanely* wasteful process.

Who or what gives them the right???
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Ryanair quietly drops carbon offset option for passengers on its flights Carbon calculator for flight emissions also withdrawn as airline says ‘there was very little interest or uptake from passengers’

As Ryanair drops its carbon offset option on its flights due to a lack of uptake, it's important to remember that trying to buy our way out of the crisis is not the meaningful radical change that we need.

#climate #ireland

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Shocking rise in power consumption in just a few very recent years by big tech is indicative of the serious problem of data centres and their exponential growth. Buying carbon offsets is plugging a dam with your finger.

#datacentres #bigtech #climate

Council approves 'crucial' Conamara restoration project Galway County Council has approved plans by Coillte to carry out an environmental restoration project in Conamara.

Blanket bog restoration to go ahead in Conamara. This is welcome news with over 300 hectares of land involved which also includes the removal of conifer and pine trees and replanting of native species.
#biodiversity #bogland #wetland #Ireland

www.rte.ie/news/connach...

Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...

One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals

Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Data Centres in Ireland  - Gluaiseacht The development of a robust and well-integrated information technology sector has been an important part of Ireland’s economic strategy for many decades now – the country’s prodigious development seen...

gluaiseacht.ie/data-centres-in-ireland/

The problems with data centres and our government's grá for them