In the last 50 years in Ireland, we’ve lost two-thirds of our farmland birds, that’s according to a local climate activist, ahead of a major talk on the topic this week.
Kilkenny man John Gibbons, a former environmental columnist with the Irish Times and the founder of climatechange.ie, will be presenting “the Everything Emergency” in St. Canince’s Cathedral.
The talk takes place at 6pm on Wednesday evening, as part of the museum of the moon exhibition.
Speaking to KCLR, he said that the climate crisis was rapidly spiralling out of control.
“A slight tip in one direction, can slowly over time trigger for example, an ice age. What we have is an Earth system that is in fine balance, and what we’re doing is we’re throwing it out of balance.”
He concluded by saying that “What we have at the moment is a man-made episode, that is having a very similar effect on Earth’s systems to the planet being struck by a 15km wide meteor travelling at 50,000 kilometres per hour.”
