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Climate & Environment

Ireland feels the heat, but our politicians are behaving like slow learners

Irish politicians appear not to have fully accepted the dangers of climate change and seem happy to pay lip service to the vague ‘net zero by 2050’ – political-speak for ‘not our problem'

Climate & Environment

Nobody wants permanent austerity, but the alternative is catastrophe

We are in an abusive relationship with capitalism, but it seems we are not willing to change a system that nurtures and threatens us

Climate & Environment

John Gibbons: The meek will inherit a ruined, dangerous, inhospitable earth

When today’s children look back at our lack of effort to stave off the looming climate disaster, they’ll wonder at how docilely we accepted our fate, and theirs

Climate and Environment

John Gibbons: Masks are off, exposing economist Pollyannas leading the world off a climate cliff

Complacent and misinformed his FT presentation may have been, but HSBC bigwig Stuart Kirk did us all a favour by exposing the financial sector’s charade of talking ‘net zero by 2050’

John Gibbons: Clean, safe, always on – why nuclear power demands a rethink

Nuclear power has long been wrongly conflated with nuclear annihilation and the Cold War but in fact nuclear plants have caused fewer than 50 fatalities ever

John Gibbons: As the smoke clears from the turf controversy, the betrayal on climate action becomes clearer

The yellow streak running through so much of our political culture as it refuses to engage with the existential climate crisis is a stain on our national discourse

John Gibbons: The inability of economics to grasp the laws of physics threatens our very existence

Global economic output has grown eightfold since 1950: an extraordinary achievement, but one delivered at a terrible cost to this planet

John Gibbons: No winners in using the crisis in Ukraine as cover to derail climate policies

While the crisis lays bare our vulnerabilities on food and energy, the notion of doubling down on fossil fuels in the wake of the Russian invasion has been strongly criticised

John Gibbons: The latest IPCC report may read like science fiction, but it’s all too real

Ukraine is understandable dominating the headlines but we ignore the latest scientific assessment of the climate crisis at our peril

Book review: The Insect Crisis highlights how an existential threat for the world’s tiniest species could spell the end for us all

Guardian journalist Oliver Milman has a bleak message about insects: they might be largely invisible to most of us, but millions are now at risk of extinction and, without them, the Earth cannot survive

John Gibbons: ‘Green’ Ireland’s eco-hypocrisy called out by Europe

The demonising of environmental defenders and the undermining of the law on environmental protection has been denounced by a senior EU Commission official

John Gibbons: Doomsday comet satire strikes home on our real-life disaster disconnect

As a new Hollywood film mocks our lack of urgency about the climate emergency, news that the ice shelf that holds back the giant Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is about to collapse is largely ignored by the media despite the global threat it poses

John Gibbons: We are close to a climate catastrophe but the message is being lost in consumption

Our politicians must show the same resolve they showed against Covid and set out the stark reality of what we face if we do not take individual responsibility for the planet, and the public and media need to buy into the warning

John Gibbons: Ireland must plan ahead now to secure full food independence

There is little evidence of strategic thinking on how we would feed ourselves if we were largely cut off from international markets

John Gibbons: Every day we delay action, another 150 or so species are lost to earth forever

Biodiversity loss is as much a threat as climate change but the political record on dealing with this crisis has been as abysmal here as it has been globally

John Gibbons: How one tycoon’s mendacity has dragged us to the age of extinction

The world’s worst climate denier is now launching an editorial campaign supporting a carbon-neutral future in an attempt to rehabilitate his image. It won’t wash

Zeitgeist: The cruel summer for Generation Incineration

With extreme weather incidents happening on a seemingly daily basis around the world, this may well be the moment when we are finally forced to face up to the brutal reality of climate change

John Gibbons: Our politicians need to catch up fast with the reality of climate science

Extreme weather events this year have shown the dangers of climate change, but our government has already given in to the agri-industrial lobby, leaving our 2030 targets dead in the water

John Gibbons: RTÉ learns lesson after it feels the heat on climate change coverage

Jon Williams, managing director of news at the national broadcaster, is finally turning the ship to face the crisis head on, setting up an entire team to mitigate its ‘sins of omission’

John Gibbons: It is astounding that the climate crisis is not routinely headline news

The Irish media need to shake off their provincial mindset and give the public the coverage this existential crisis so desperately deserves