Saving The Planet By Punishing The Poor
In Ireland, approaches to climate saving initiatives are out of touch with the people.
A short opinion piece on the damage being done by haphazard, uninformed, and frankly regressive approaches to addressing climate change.
It’s with increasing frustration that I see the endless doctrine from government departments about “clean air” and the rules and regulations that are happily churned out by seat warming politicians and their bureaucratic sidekicks without thought to how people can actually adhere to these pie in the sky arbitrary constraints.
Take, for example, the burning of solid fuels, something that is incredibly common in rural areas as they are a fuel source that is widely available, easy to transport, and (above all) cheap.
Well, cheap-ish, thanks for the Carbon Tax we are now forced to live with.
Not everyone, you see, has gas on tap or can afford a heat pump, and many people in rural areas rely on either solid fuels or oil fired boilers for heat and, sometimes, cooking.
The government narrative seems to be focussed squarely on the endless rollout of directives concerning fuels and their emissions — what fuels can be used, regulated, or taxed right up to the hilt.
