Pete Lunn
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192 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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Okay.
But there have been spikes in the past and they often fall away.
Now in the last five or six years they've fallen away more, but that's not because people are worrying less about climate change, it's because other issues have bulk.
doubled up the agenda, so it's become less of a priority.
In particular cost of living
immigration and health concerns have really dominated the last five or six years of politics.
Internationally I'm talking here and obviously in Ireland housing as well.
So there's a real question there and and you mentioned voting for the Greens.
It's not so much who you vote for necessarily as what you demand of the people that you do vote for and whether you demand that they place a priority on this.
Because politicians will respond to to public priority.
We see that in the daily business of politics.
So the big question here is does a summer that is this extreme get the issue up the agenda enough that we get the kind of political pressure?
But also
The public acceptance of change, which is what there has to be if we're gonna make a dent in this problem.
Explain that.
Well, we have to che we have to be willing to see renewable infrastructure be built, to see active travel um infrastructure going in our towns, to use our cars less, to change in particular in Ireland the way we use land and agriculture because we
Per capita, agriculture is the high we're in Europe the highest emitting agriculture sector.
We almost double the number of emissions per capita compared to the rest of Europe.
Yeah, because we
so this discussion gets really interesting, right?
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