Irish Examiner View: Failing to face up to climate crisis

The report from the Environmental Protection Agency once again underlined our continuing head-in-the-sand delusion when it comes to climate change.

Yesterday's High Court ruling against planning permission for a badly needed €500m Irish Water wastewater treatment plant at Clonshaugh in Dublin is symptomatic of the many problems we face in trying to protect our environment. 

The pace of change, the pace of delivery of essential projects to try to slow if not reverse the ravages of environmental destruction is far, far too slow. All too often it seems that for every step forward there are two if not three backward steps in this do-or-die battle we must win if we are to avert catastrophic change.