Irish Examiner view: Revise shameful food plan and face reality

Food Vision 2030 was delivered as if climate collapse was a fantasy

An 11th-hour report to be published on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn that cutting carbon dioxide will not be enough to avoid a crisis. Picture: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

A little over a week ago Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, chief of staff of the Defence Forces, joined many of his international peers when he warned that climate change is the biggest threat to our way of life. 

He, like many of those responsible for the security of their country’s civilians, warned that climate breakdown is creating global conflict. It may be a forlorn hope but maybe his sober intervention will, at last, stir a realism that the ever-more dismal warnings from scientists failed to generate.