Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 3 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg

Mr. Kumayl Mustafa:

I would like to go back to the topics brought up by Senator Boylan and Deputy Cronin about the idea behind capitalism and how it is the root cause of most of the problems we have. I have just finished fifth year. In a couple of months, I will be filling out my CAO form and sticking law in different colleges at the top of my list, I hope. I have had to come to terms with the amount of work I will end up doing in my career. If I go into corporate law and give up my morals and ideals, I will live a much more comfortable life. The more work I do, however, the less comfortable I will be. If I go into environmental law, as I hope to do to try to help people, the lifestyle I will live will be worse-off than it would be if I went into corporate law.

It has been suggested that younger states are more invested in energy sources, etc. When Ireland was new, we introduced a dam. My family comes from Kashmir in Pakistan. There is a dam in the city of Mirpur where my family comes from. I wonder why younger states have a tendency to work harder for things like this. We need to reignite that passion within our Government to try to make a statement to the world about how we can do better.

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