Environment
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Tone deaf
The graves, railings and grass were removed from Wolfe Tone Park, leaving it depressing and sterile.
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Motor moronism
egime of taxes and subsidies on cars simply doesn’t achieve purported aims.
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PCBs and DDT adhere to microbeads, forming super-concentrated toxin balls which travel up the food chain. By John Gibbons
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A prehistory of violence
The greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil-fuel burning.
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Just for show
By Michael Smith Climate change is the biggest issue of our age. It seems likely to leave a legacy for future generations that will mean our epoch will be remembered primarily for its stupidity and spendthrift environmental profligacy. The long-heralded Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 may or may not be adopted before […]
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Extinction again
By Ken Phelan It seems, environmentally, that we have finally reached the nadir of life. Whereas 65m years ago it was probably an asteroid that threatened all life on Earth, now it is life itself – in the shape of humans. Scientists at a number of north American universities recently produced a report stating that […]
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Bus-ting myths
By Anne Graham The National Transportation Authority was unhappy with the assertion in a recent article in Village (Labour’s Weapon , May 2015, by Michael Smith), that: “… Dublin Bus continues to buy polluting vehicles rather than the best available emission-efficient standard”. On behalf of the National Transport Authority, which now purchases all vehicles for […]