A chara, – Congratulations and a huge thank you to Philip Boucher-Hayes and his team on an absolutely stunning and sobering first episode of Rising Tides: Ireland’s Future in a Warmer World.
If RTÉ could stop the relentless advertising by car companies which tends to characterise their stations, and the continued emphasis on travel by car (like naming a radio show Drivetime), this could have a positive impact on reducing transport-related emissions and could help accelerate the modal shift so badly needed if we are to decouple transport emissions from economic growth.
We need a fundamental shift away from transport by private car altogether, as opposed to a shift to electric vehicles (EVs).
EVs have huge levels of embodied carbon and do not bring any of the “co-benefits” of reducing private car travel (such as reduced road deaths, improved the public realm, improved health and reduced obesity, improved social equality, reduced financial burden on governments, etc).
After Storm Éowyn, can Ireland’s electricity, water and phone networks cope with further extreme weather?
Civil Service remote working: how often do you work in the office? Have you been asked to come in more frequently?
Emer McLysaght: Five years ago I entered a psychiatric hospital with an eating disorder
Powerless in rural Ireland: I love my EV but Storm Éowyn has made me think twice
I welcome People Before Profit’s current Bill (Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill) in the Dáil to ban advertising of fossil fuel and fossil-fuel vehicles and hope this is expedited and implemented as soon as possible.
This Bill should be extended to cover the advertisement of all private cars. – Is mise,
LYNN McMAHON,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.
