Gavin Daly
@gavinjdaly
Planner, Geographer, PhD Environmental Sciences
A reminder that - despite rapid increase in renewables - global fossil fuel use and emissions reached a record high in 2025
Quantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight to land in a country experiencing a record-breaking heatwave.
Based on the historical rates of emission reductions achieved by wealthy nations, it would take them an average of 223 years to reach a 95% reduction in carbon emissions.
The conclusions of the study on which this article is based is much more nuanced than presented in this article but largely ignored. It would have been instructive if the author engaged in these questions
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. There is a near perfect 1:1 correlation between material consumption and GDP growth. I do admire the effort in this piece to deny the undeniable but the laws of physics cannot be eschewed
Please remember that everytime you eat fish you are also eating whales, dolphins and seabirds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Two articles in the @irishtimes.com today sum up that the Irish housing affordability crisis is a class crisis
Its neither simple, obvious or non-controversial! The biggest contributer to low availability and accessibility of goods and services globally, and its pathalogcal outcomes, is the capitalist growth economy. The top 10% of the world’s population owns around 70–80% of total global wealth.
Wealthy countries stop ‘developing countries’ from developing because we pillage their resources to maintain our quest for endless growth and overconsumption
Kallis, Giorgos et al. "Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries" @thelancet.bsky.social Planetary Health, Volume 9, Issue 1, e62 - e7
On lessons from Storm Éowyn- Our electricity distribution system is uniquely vulnerable to climate and environmental risks. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
@businesspost.bsky.social articles are just advertisments for property developers
Crikey. The judgment of Mr. Justice Humphreys in Coolglass is some read
Please never tell me that we can stop our unfolding ecolgical disaster while continuing to grow the economy. If you still believe the fairytale you're either mad or an economist.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. #LAFire Marya Mannes