Pádraig Hoare: Ireland will wake gasping for breath if we don't step up fight against emissions

We took draconian preventative measures to lock down a country due to covid-19, yet seem happy to react instead of reduce the existential threat of climate change

It's hard to comprehend the depth of the Cerberus heatwave that has smothered much of Europe when it remains wet and windy outside our own doorstep; perhaps one of the reasons we haven't fully grasped the magnitude of what is happening in the world. Photo: AP/Petros Giannakouris

There are only so many times you can hit the snooze button before you sleep it out—if the latest warning about Ireland's crawling progress on emissions reductions isn't now heeded, we'll remain in a deeply unhealthy slumber, sputtering and gasping for breath when we finally wake.

It's hard to comprehend the depth of the Cerberus heatwave that has smothered much of Europe when it remains wet and windy outside our own doorstep; perhaps one of the reasons we haven't fully grasped the magnitude of what is happening in the world.