PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own. https://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mvne5bhljk2jPilgrim at Tinker Creek is a really beautiful book. RIP Annie Dillard. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvne5bhljk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mvmxypy2u22kAnother EPA report showing nitrate water pollution trends going the wrong direction-the majority of which comes from farming. The weather doesn't help,but our farming system needs to adapt so fluctuating weather does not lead to water pollution.This is our new reality. https://www.epa.ie/publications/monitoring--assessment/freshwater--marine/Early-Insights-Nitrogen-Report-Jan-June-2026-FO1-Covered.pdf16 Sep 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvmxypy2u22khttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mvmq5bgrms2bA very good question. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/15/the-irish-times-view-on-farming-and-politics-unhealthily-close/16 Sep 2026 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvmq5bgrms2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mv3ycxutns232 different headlines in my timeline right now about how AI is going to potentially kill us, and by the way it's also spying on us. But yet, somehow, those of us questioning the ubiquity and inevitability of AI are the naïve ones? We're the problem?09 Sep 2026 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3ycxutns23https://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mv3wunhaq22fGreat to see the CCAC raising food security. How can we claim to be feeding the world, when we can't even feed ourselves? 'The council says the State’s food security is at risk and the department should review the support schemes in place to encourage more fruit and vegetable production.' [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3wunhaq22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3muz7owhxbs2nThe latest in a long line of efforts by the industrial agri lobby to try persuade people that Irish meat and dairy is wonderful. I don't know about you, but science be damned, having listened to this rap I am now fully persuaded... https://www.independent.ie/farming/am-i-old-or-is-the-new-farm-ad-cringy/a/160899870.html08 Sep 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muz7owhxbs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3muwb2dm72s2zMake this make sense. Data centres are to be offered cut price gas, on the condition that they use diesel generators when gas demand is high?! That'll be wonderful for the health of all the communities saddled with these data centres, not to mention emissions. https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/09/07/data-centres-to-get-cut-price-gas-in-exchange-for-possible-disruption-of-supply/07 Sep 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwb2dm72s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3muh35pvi6s2wRIP Wendell Berry. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muh35pvi6s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/elainemcgoff.bsky.social/post/3mugzpvcxt22wThis is the perfect description of the rapid rollout of large scale data centres: 'monuments to climate chaos' and we are the 'dumping ground for all the AI infrastructure that other countries don’t want' [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:gpqcghk4thhkymwoetjunvo2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mugzpvcxt22w