It is the most existential challenge ever faced by human civilisation and Ireland needs to wake up we are not performing, we are a laggards in Europe, we as a society need to start acting responsibly.”Īs a freeman of the city he said he would “speak out much louder and much more clearly, even if it’s not through television, I will be bringing this information and supporting those who are making the efforts to make the change”. When it comes to elections we don’t see this becoming the priority issue it deserves. “It’s not just politicians who are to blame for this, our electorate don’t seem to care about the environment. “There is no sign of Ireland meeting its 51 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and every year we miss we are digging the hole deeper and it’s going to be harder and harder to get out of this situation.,” he said. He also blamed the electorate for continuing to support parties who were not making a stand for the environment. Mr Stewart also criticised Fine Gael and Sinn Féin for what he said was their failure to support EU nature restoration laws. Now I have the freedom of Dublin to really embarrass these politicians to make sure they don’t ever get elected again.” We have to stop this negative publicity by politicians. “Greta Thunberg and the Green Party are very much on the same focus. In my view these people are not acting for their children’s future,” Mr Stewart said. “These politicians are playing to an audience for votes, they are only interested in getting elected or staying in power and they will knock everything else to get in power. Mr Stewart, who until recently presented the long-running Eco Eye television series said he was “shocked, embarrassed, undeserving,” but “thrilled to see the environment being given a platform at long last – and I mean at long last because we have major problems in Ireland with the way we disregard climate change”. She did, however, delegate two representatives of the youth climate strike movement in Ireland, Jessica Dunne and Sumaya Ahmed to attend on her behalf. While Mr Stewart attended the event, Ms Thunberg, who is based in Sweden and does not fly because of the carbon emissions produced by the airline industry, did not. Mr Stewart was speaking ahead of a ceremony in the Mansion House on Wednesday evening where he, and Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg, were awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin by Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy. Environmentalist Duncan Stewart said he will be using his new platform as a “freeman” of Dublin city to “embarrass” politicians who are not acting in the best interest of the environment and the welfare of future generations.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |