Maeve Higgins THERE IS A lot going on, don’t you think? Plagues, America, queues outside Penneys, but I’m keeping my eye on the ball. The ultimate ball: the planet.
Irish governments have not protected our climate. In fact the ‘plan’ the outgoing government put in place is to quietly allow the Irish environment, people included, to continue being unprotected and abused, with the inevitable result of pure climate chaos.
They are taking the Irish State to court, to the highest court we have, the Supreme Court, challenging the 2017 National Mitigation Plan. That plan is so weak it actually allows greenhouse gases to rise, and puts us all in increasing danger.This group, a voluntary network of citizens known as Friends of the Irish Environment, is asking the court to make the State create and enact a better plan.
Despite this acknowledgement, the State continued to keep its head in the ever-increasing sand. This year already the Climate Change Performance Index highlighted Ireland as being one of the worst performing European member states for action on climate change. Climate science is not playing around, and neither should we.