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Published in The Dubliner.
Not changed utterly. Things will change in Dublin, but they will not change utterly. Dublin in 1970 was similar to Dublin in 2009, and Dublin in 2050 will be outwardly similar. The intervening days between today and 2050 – about 15,000 of them – offer us the opportunity [...]
Published in the Sunday Independent. and on the 2050 blog.
THE decisions you take in the coming days, weeks and years will affect the choices that your children will be able to make when they become adults and take up the reins of Irish society in the coming decades. So the answers you give to the [...]
Take a look at the data below, which comes from this recently released CO2 emissions report by the CSO. (You can get the data I used to make the chart here).
I’ve taken the largest emitters of CO2 by sector, and graphed them. The data pull out an interesting story. We see a mitigation of the [...]
Gerard posts on an issue I’ve been working on for something else—the need for a growing economy to provide itself with power without burning fossil fuels. Even together, solar, wind, wave, hydroelectric, and other greener technologies aren’t yet up to the task of supplying Ireland’s needs, as the government’s 2007 white paper has shown. As James Lovelock has controversially [...]
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