Climate change: Higgins warns of judgment by ‘future generations’

has said society will be “judged by future generations as to whether we averted our gaze from the vulnerabilities of planet . . . the empathy necessary to celebrate our interdependency”.

In a wide-ranging address in Athens, he said he is “conscious of the vulnerability of the Kurdish people”. He called for a new “ecological-social paradigm” to reverse social and environmental damage and to reduce inequality, stating that such a model represents the “best response towards intergenerational justice”.

“A new paradigm of economy is now urgently required, one that might steer us back towards what will be a long but essential road of societal and ecological reparation,” Mr Higgins told an audience in the Greek capital on Thursday evening, where he delivered the keynote speech at the Athens Democracy Forum.

Such an approach would “address and reduce inequality while simultaneously operating within an ecological awareness of the planet’s natural systems and their constraints”, he said. It was “necessary for survival itself and our best prospect for an enduring form of cohesion in how we live together”.

Ha

Did he say this before or after he recently evicted the students from one of his properties to gain a tax advantage? The president will be judged by future generations by how much of a hypocrite he has shown himself to be. Some 'socialist': more Marks & Spencer than Karl Marx.

Don't blame me, i voted for Casey.

The same guy who took the government jet to Belfast. Lol

Says the man who flew to Belfast while a car drove there also to pick him up when he landed. he’s become an absolute hypocrite from what he once stood for.

More waffle

Society will be judged for the barbarity of the abortion of our unborn babies, depriving them and what should be future generations of Irish people.

Millionaire socialist with entourage, jet, free tickets to all the big gigs living in a lavish house with plenty of spare rooms says what, exactly?

maeveorourke He's beginning to sound like the Pope. Wake me up when he's over.

Watch this and wake up!

Society will not be judged. Survival is not assured and on current trajectory there won’t be anyone to judge.

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