Irish Examiner View: New food policy must reflect climate threat

Environmental responsibility has pushed the Green Party up to 6% and their leader, Eamon Ryan, up to 35% in the approval ratings.

Division, and all too often division that hardens to polarisation, is the currency of this volatile age. It is as if we have forgotten how to communicate, to accept that views other than our own must be acknowledged and, to one degree or another, accommodated. Strife and failure can ensue, but that need not be the case.

The US’s recent elections, and especially subsequent protests, underlined an almost visceral, unbridgeable polarisation. That mutual disdain cannot end well. The UK, for however long more it can withstand the sundering forces of Brexit or Scottish nationalism, is another example.