Forget Tesla versus tractor, we are all responsible for climate change

Polarised views are not helping the debate on how our diet affects our environment

Young people march on Leinster House to demand action on tackling climate change

When the EAT-Lancet report came out in January, with its recommendations that we drastically reduce our meat consumption, it was greeted with derision. And last month, we saw a similar reaction to material compiled by An Taisce for schools about how our diets affect climate change.

There was no measured discussion, no trying to acknowledge both sides’ concerns and meet somewhere in the middle. Instead, there was full-on war. Is this just a ...