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Jerry Mac Evilly

@jerrymacevilly.bsky.social
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Puzzled patron of politics and policies re climate, energy, sustainable development. Campaigns Director Friends of the Earth Ireland. Shares/likes “just resting in my account”- views my own!

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New CEO of Diageo writes: "Environmental shocks, from flooding to soil degradation to heat stress, pose direct threats to commercial viability Recent evidence found that the share prices of companies most exposed to biodiversity risk underperformed those less exposed" www.ft.com/content/5094...
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The food industry must face up to nature-related risk
Boardrooms need to acknowledge that without healthy soils and reliable seasons the system could face collapse
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Cop30: Five things we learned from the Brazil climate summit #Cop30 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Cop30: Five things we learned from the Brazil climate summit
Money and self-interest dominate talks but individual countries can drive initiatives
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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · 24/11/2025
Half of Cork farms inspected by Council failed water quality protection regulations www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
independent.ie
Half of Cork farms inspected by Council failed water quality protection regulations
Half of the farms inspected by Cork County Council under the National Agriculture Inspection Programme (NAIP) this year have failed to comply with the government’s Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) reg...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2025
YOUR DAILY REMINDER: Everyone in the fossil fuel industry knows and admits that building new infrastructure like pipelines *actively increases* demand for the burning of fossil fuels (and all the physical disasters that go along with that) bofaglobalresearch.podbean.com/e/a-pipeline...
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 17/11/2025
The climate crisis is a crisis mostly of the fossil fuel industry's own making – and one they do not want to fix nor be held accountable for The presence and involvement of oil, gas and coal lobbyists at the #COP30 UN climate summit is like tobacco lobbyists at a lung cancer summit: unacceptable
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
October in Ireland. Apples from New Zealand. Our food system is completely broken. We could grow these ourselves, but instead, we ship them 18,000 km. If we can’t grow and eat what’s in season here, how can we talk about food security?
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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨 Permission for Irish data centre megacomplex could send dangerous signal for Europe. Today we’re supporting a legal action taken by Friends of the Irish Environment and @foeireland.bsky.social.
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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 23/09/2025
🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z... #TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas 1/7 🧵👇
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/08/2025
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 15/08/2025
I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday. O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The Irish Times view on climate policy: Government must avoid backsliding 'Climatologist Prof John Sweeney has argued that the shift, which reduces the required emissions reduction target, is not aligned with scientific recommendations' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
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The Irish Times view on climate policy: Government must avoid backsliding
How methane is regarded in policy terms has big implications for carbon budgets up to 2040, which must be signed off on soon.
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“This approach doesn’t just weaken climate ambition, it entrenches inequality”. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... 🧵1/
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Climate scientists criticise Ireland over new ‘temperature neutrality’ proposal
‘For Ireland, with outsized methane emissions, to base its long-term climate target on stabilising warming sets a dangerous precedent’
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Colm Duffy @colmduff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What if wealthy nations could lock in high methane emissions and still claim climate neutrality? That’s the risk with “temperature neutrality”. Here’s the plain-English version of our new study: medium.com/@colmduffy/h...
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How one country’s potential climate backslide could block others from feeding themselves, and…
The Dangerous Allure of ‘No Additional Warming’.
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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is a great study on a complicated, but very important topic. I encourage all with an interest in climate, agriculture, nutrition or justice (i.e. everybody?) to engage with it...
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 12/08/2025
🧵THREAD on agri-methane and ‘no additional warming’ Why is it so important to reduce methane (CH4) emissions from agriculture in the near term? What happens when countries like #Ireland use ‘no additional warming’ to set climate targets? PAPER: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... (1/18)
Screen grab of paper title, published in Environmental Research Letters, 12 August 2025. Title reads: National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane emissions and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. Duffy et al 2025.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 12/08/2025
Our new journal paper has hit the front pages and got wide coverage on the airwaves this morning. The paper critically assesses “temperature neutrality” as a basis for Ireland’s long-term climate target. We find it amounts to backsliding on climate ambition and locks in food system unfairness.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 12/08/2025
I first tried to write a paper like this alone, about 5 years ago but never got it across the line (the topic was another metric - GWP* - but very similar arguments). Wonderful to have been invited to collaborate with this great team of scientists to publish this great paper.
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Duffy et al.(2025) out today: "Looking specifically at Ireland, ∼90% of ASFP [animal-sourced food production] is exported to high-income markets, with just ∼0.3% reaching low-income countries." ➡️ Demolishing the "feed the world" claims of the 🇮🇪 agri-food industry & Teagasc. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Figure 5. Trade Flows (USD) of Animal Sourced Food Products (ASFP) & indirect Land Use Change (iLUC) from animal feed.

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Duffy, Colm, Carl Doedens, Róisín Moriarty, Hannah Daly, David Styles, and Malte Meinshausen. ‘National Temperature Neutrality, Agricultural Methane and Climate Policy: Reinforcing Inequality in the Global Food System’. Environmental Research Letters 20, no. 9 (2025): 094019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adf12d.

– "Figure 5 challenges the assumption that ASFP [animal sourced food products] production in higher-income countries contributes meaningfully to alleviating global food insecurity."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/08/2025
On the UK telling ppl to delete emails to save water: UK data centres don't actually report how much water they consume!!! "Every five years, the EA puts out its water deficit projections, but it was difficult to do this year, the sources said, because of the growth in AI"
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AI boom means regulator cannot predict future water shortages in England
Datacentres, which do not have to report amount of water used to cool servers, leave Environment Agency with no idea of shortfalls
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/08/2025
Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism. www.ft.com/content/0f61...
a chart showing rising dc power consumption but flatlining renewable growth levels
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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This graph illustrates nicely why @foeireland.bsky.social , @nhna.bsky.social and other groups are calling for a pause on data centre expansion.
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We welcome the report from the Taoiseach’s advisory council calling for urgent action on energy affordability, energy poverty, and clean heat. We're now calling for immediate Government action to progress NESC’s policy recommendations before the winter. www.friendsoftheearth.ie/press/friend...
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Friends of the Earth welcomes report from Taoiseach’s advisory council calling for urgent action on energy affordability, energy poverty, and clean heat
Friends of the Earth calls for immediate Government action to progress NESC’s policy recommendations before coming winter
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 12/08/2025
🚨New research out today🚨 We critically examine the use of 'temperature neutrality' or 'no additional warming' as a approach to setting national climate targets, particularly in relation to agricultural methane reduction. We found that using this approach... iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Screen graph of paper title, published in Environmental Research Letters, 12 August 2025. Title reads: National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane emissions and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. Duffy et al 2025.
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Jerry Mac Evilly @jerrymacevilly.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"creating...access,...positively impacting the environment..." (?!) This is incredibly dishonest, deceitful and disturbing, even by fossil fuel company standards (from the US owners of Shannon LNG).
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
1/ In March Govt approved a costly, polluting state-owned LNG terminal. Now Minister O'Brien is leaving door open to dangerous US backed LNG project in Kerry. This breaks climate commitments, raises new geopolitical risks and does nothing for energy security.
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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Members of Not Here Not Anywhere were in Malahide this weekend talking to members of the public about the high carbon footprint of LNG and the upcoming response from TD Minister O’Brien to An Coimisiún Pleanála’s request regarding Shannon LNG’s planning application (1/2)
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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
On Saturday 26th July, NHNA gathered outside Cork City Hall alongside local City Councillors, environmental activists, and members of the public to say NO to LNG.
Text that reads Cork says no to LNG. Image of protestors outside Cork City Hall, holding signs. Text reads keep the global goal of 1.5 alive, no new fossil fuels infrastructure in Ireland or around the world Two local Councilors holding posters and smiling, in front of the anti-LNG demonstration outside Cork City Hall
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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 28/07/2025
Thanks Amy Campbell and the Echo for reporting the Not Here Not Anywhere demonstration in Cork on Saturday. It was in support of the motion in my name that Cork City Council should continue to back investment in offshore renewables in the region and not be distracted by talk of fracked LNG imports.
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Concerns voiced over liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals at Cork protest
They expressed concerns that the government’s scrapping of the policy banning imports of fracked gas earlier this year has opened the door to LNG ...
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Jerry Mac Evilly @jerrymacevilly.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
youtu.be/mEAdigVp50M?... Significant that foreign press is rightly now following this major problem closely (with great input by Friends of the Earth Ireland).
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Ireland data centres: Electricity consumption puts pressure on energy grid
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
What a tragic waste of tax dollars. Terrible for the climate. Terrible for consumers throughout the northeast, as this is likely to raise gas and electric prices throughout the region, including where I live in NY State. insideclimatenews.org/news/1507202...
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Trump Hails $90 Billion in Corporate Investment to Make Pennsylvania an AI Hub, Fueled by Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
While government, energy, tech and banking leaders held a summit, protestors warned of worsening climate pollution and a future shaped by “the worst people on Earth.”
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I think everybody would agree that not having enough electricity for homes is a small price to pay in order to fill the place with data centers that employ nobody
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Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Pleased to see this from @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social who has committed to pull together evidence on the impact of #carspreading on road danger. It should be a quick job as the evidence is building daily?! We need action asap 🧵1/6 www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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London council weighs parking surcharge on 'supersize' SUVs
Lambeth to commission study into whether larger vehicles pose a greater danger to pedestrians and cyclists
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Jerry Mac Evilly @jerrymacevilly.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We now have ESBN & GNI on record that they can't prevent data centre connections. Upshot is no limits on data centres outside of Dublin + expansion of sites in Dublin - skyrocketing demand, impacts on housing, higher costs, gas dependency & emissions. Urgent need for legislative + policy change!
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Food & Water Action Europe @foodwatereurope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
1/ Banking on Liquefied “Natural” Gas #LNG to power our industry, heat our homes, and cook our meals is a TERRIBLE idea. Check the facts in the new LNG Economic Visual Guide—endorsed by 19 groups—to see why the numbers just don’t add up 🔢 👉 www.foodandwatereurope.org/factsheet/ne...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Very exciting things happening on the shed roofs today! We're finally going solar!! 🌞
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📣Calling folks living in the South Dublin CC area A motion calling for a moratorium on data centre expansion from @jess-spear.bsky.social may be up for a vote on Monday 14th July. Call on your councillors to support! 👇 www.friendsoftheearth.ie/data-centres...
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Charlie Weston @charlieweston.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Enough is enough’ – households being forced to subsidise the costs of data centres, says Sinn Féin MEP Regulator increased network charges for households to fund investment in network m.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
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‘Enough is enough’ – households being forced to subsidise the costs of data centres, says Sinn Féin MEP
The energy regulator has been accused of putting the interests of data centres ahead of household electricity users.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The more I look at industrial decarbonisation, the more I come to the point of view that we have overstated the role of molecules in the past and underestimated the role of electrons in the future.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 09/07/2025
Our NEW report with @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social + @earthworks.bsky.social finds that further investments in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are incompatible with a liveable climate. Learn more: www.greenpeace.org/usa/failing-the-climate-test/
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Failing the climate test: LNG projects awaiting final investment decision do not stand up to U.S. Government analysis - Greenpeace - Greenpeace
Read the report: Download "Failing the “Climate Test.” The multi-volume analysis, termed the 2024 LNG Export Study, represents the most comprehensive government assessment to-date of the energy, econo...
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I've seen a lot of commentary about 'shifting goalposts' for farmers from agri lobbyists over the last 2 days. The goalposts haven't shifted, the government just ignored them until now. The Habitats Directive has been in force since 1992, it's high time they were properly applied to agri pollution.
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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is very bad news. What's more incredible is that EPP could have outbid the far right and didn't. The complacency around the threat posed by the far-right to Europe's climate agenda is shocking. www.politico.eu/article/the-...
politico.eu
The far right’s climate power grab
The Patriots for Europe, a new far-right force in Brussels, has won the right to lead the European Parliament’s 2040 climate target discussions.
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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · 09/07/2025
How drinking water will become scarcer and more polluted as climate change impacts hit Ireland www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
independent.ie
How drinking water will become scarcer and more polluted as climate change impacts hit Ireland
Ireland’s drinking water sources will be scarcer and more polluted as climate change plays havoc with rainfall and rivers, new government analysis shows.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Europe's reliance on fossil fuel imports funds autocratic regimes, creating a dangerous vulnerability. The transition to clean, homegrown energy isn't just an environmental goal—it's a national security imperative.
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Jerry Mac Evilly @jerrymacevilly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Thrilled to share publication of our joint declaration on nature-friendly renewables. Reflects major collab by Environmental Pillar, WEI + Solar Ireland via @foeireland.bsky.social's #OurEnergyFuture. It's a clear call to Govt: act boldly on nature & renewables. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Industry and environment groups unveil plan to accelerate renewable energy
Efforts to bring about wind and solar farms can support land and marine biodiversity, group says
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
1/ Today, the Environmental Pillar, Solar Ireland & Wind Energy Ireland joined forces to call for urgent Govt action to align Ireland’s renewables roll-out with nature protection @envpillar.bsky.social @solarireland.bsky.social @windenergyireland.bsky.social www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/renewab...
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Renewable industry and environmental NGOs join forces to call for urgent Government action to align critical renewables roll-out with nature protection | Friends of the Earth
Wind Energy Ireland and Solar Ireland, Ireland’s main renewable energy industry associations, have joined forces with Ireland’s leading environmental network, the Environmental Pillar, to call …
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 25/06/2025
NEW REPORT JUST LAUNCHED! 🛢️Our food system is hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of #climate talks. 🔥Food systems use 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals. #FuelToFork exposes the risks – and lays out real paths to #FossilFreeFood. 👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #ClimateAction #BigOil
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Fuel To Fork - IPES-Food report
Our food system uses 40% of petrochemicals and 15% of fossil fuels – yet it's left out of the climate conversation. Here's the path to fossil-free food.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How can *anyone* take seriously the Irish state's concern re wildlife crime when it continues to allow open mass ecosystem destruction for profit? www.rte.ie/news/environ...
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Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA
The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws.
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colinroche.bsky.social @colinroche.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Fantastic initiative from @foeireland.bsky.social Everyone deserves to live in a decent home.
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