The future is impossible to predict. Energy and carbon emissions are becoming more and more important as issues for policy and for society in general and the need for insight continues to grow. Going beyond the usual approaches, this book explores the past and future of Ireland not only economically and technologically but socially, culturally, demographically and in governance. Based on a prominent research study in the Futures Academy of Dublin Institute of Technology by Dr. Tadhg O Mahony, the resulting scenarios are a first. A new methodology is developed, the driving forces of change are...