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Des

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
344 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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"It is currently unsustainable"

None.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

Not that I have heard, unless you can tell me otherwise.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

I don't believe any of them are going to make these targets.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

And a target is only a target.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

That's the reality of it.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

Jesus, when I was a kid, I targeted to be a professional footballer.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

I'm not a professional footballer.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

Here, here, I agree.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

That's not the way life is.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

And all of that.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

I think we should really consider changing that word climate change.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

Because I think the reality right throughout the world, verified by the top scientists, we're in a phase of climate breakdown.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

And we begin to have this conversation when we have heat today.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

But we also look at the extremities of those flooding events.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

All of this is going to become more frequent, more intensive, because we're getting very close to that 1.5 degree.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

And when we go over that, then it's nearly a self-fulfilling prophecy that hasn't signed off on it yet in a world context.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

But just going back to the previous conversation about where Ireland is in this whole journey.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

Many years ago, 25 years ago, I was over in Aarhus in Denmark.

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"It is currently unsustainable"

And 25 years ago,

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"It is currently unsustainable"

District heating systems, anaerobic digestion, wind farms were just the norm.