Global warming, or climate change, is an increase in the earth's atmospheric temperature since the late nineteenth century. In politics, the debate over global warming is centered on whether this increase in temperature is due to greenhouse gas emissions or is the result of a natural pattern in the earth's temperature. In 2015 Alan Kelly, the minister for the Environment, published the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill which outlined several goals that will make Ireland a “low carbon” economy by 2050. Opponents argue that strict laws on carbon emissions will have a severe effect on the Irish economy since many of the regulations will inflict heavy costs on the agricultural industry. Proponents argue that Ireland should join other developed countries and do its part to limit carbon emissions by 2020.
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Response rates from 1.5k Laois voters.
84% Yes |
16% No |
78% Yes |
11% No |
6% Yes, and provide more incentives for alternative energy production |
2% No, provide more incentives for alternative energy production instead |
2% No, just enforce existing regulations |
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0% No, and I believe global warming is a natural occurrence |
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0% No, and the current government is over-regulating businesses |
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Unique answers from Laois voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
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Climate change doesn’t exist, left wing democracy uses it as a mass propaganda machine to control the population
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It depends on the size of the business, regulations are important but if enforced on a national level irrelevant to scale then could cause severe closures of small buisnness due to regulatory requirements and costs.
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Larger more profitable businesses should face increased regulations. Smaller local business should receive incentives for alternative energy options
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Yes, but it should relative to the size and nature of the business eg. Data centres of multinational tech giants
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Yes but only if they actually make sense. Incentives should be made to go towards environmentally better ways of working.
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What's the point when some of the biggest polluting countries don't do anything and then we import their goods?
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Yes i believe it is important to reduce carbon emissions but it most be done in a way that doesnt affect the business owners or taxes.
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Yes but less on SMEs as they are already struggling with the costs of trading (minimum wage, overheads, etc)
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