Two key issues largely ignored

HOW odd that the two most crucial issues of the 21st century — peak oil and climate change — hardly got a look-in during the election.

In Irish politics, it seems it is only when a situation deteriorates into a full-blown crisis that action is taken and then, very often, too little too late.

Nobody is found to be responsible (‘Oh, this government wasn’t in power then’) and we hear instead things like ‘who could have predicted this?’ and ‘nobody could have foreseen’.