Living Within the Constraints of the Planetary Boundaries in Ireland: Why Ireland must confront climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline before those limits are permanently breached.

Why Ireland must confront climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline before those limits are permanently breached.

In the work that I do, I often deliver presentations on environmental sustainability. Over the last twenty years, I have encountered climate deniers and sceptics. I have even encountered people who hold the same view expressed by Trump, that climate change is "the biggest farce of the twenty first century". Others argue that the climate has always changed and refer to the ice age around ten thousand years ago, when the whole country was covered in ice.

However, to properly understand the meaning and the decline of biodiversity one must adopt a holistic approach. Looking at climate change in isolation does not provide an accurate picture of what is happening to the Earth system.