Ep 18 - Their world will be what we make it

Ireland has a Climate Action Plan that the government maintains will succeed in reducing our Greenhouse Gases in line with what we are legally obliged to do. Nobody else agrees. This programme measures the gap between what we have to do and what we are actually getting done. 

90% of everything imported into Ireland arrives by ship. That's a thousand ships a month docking in Irish ports. If shipping and aviation continue business as usual, by 2050 they will do more global warming combined than agriculture. 

Climate change is having sweeping effects on our climate and this is changing the world, not just for humans and other animals, but plants too. Will the Earth’s flora manage to find safe refuge in time?    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

We’ve grown accustomed to viewing climate change as an enemy we must urgently defeat. But is that the right metaphor for the greatest existential problem of our time? This week, we consider how to reframe the way we think about life on a changing planet.

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