John Gibbons: ‘The Irish fairy tale of a green, pleasant land obscures pollution and failures of climate crisis’

John Gibbons: ‘The Irish fairy tale of a green, pleasant land obscures pollution and failures of climate crisis’

John Gibbons describes himself as a “natural optimist”. Over the course of his career as an environmental campaigner and correspondent, Gibbons has obtained an in-depth understanding of Ireland’s slow progress on tackling carbon pollution and meeting our emissions reduction targets – yet he still believes we have reasons to be hopeful in the coming decades, and that with careful planning and targeted action, we can mitigate the most severe impac…