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Halloween is this week and there's a lot of scary news out there. The latest UN Emissions Gap Report warns that we are on course for 3 degrees of warming. There's no more time for 'hot air'.

Darragh, Ciara and Anna agree with Oxfam that the scariest monsters this Halloween are the Bloody Billionaires! No more treats for them while they trick the rest of us.

Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime | Oxfam International

ACTIONS for this week

Recommended reading from a regular listener: If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change

Sign up with Friends of the Earth for a Climate Justice Day of Action: Tuesday, November 12th. On this day, FoE invite you to get out into your communities and talk to neighbours, friends, family or indeed local politicians about the most pressing climate justice issues of the day. There are many ways to participate.

Darragh is excited about the start of the Irish Garden Birds Survey

And you can have your say on our national parks in this consultation.

Ciara wants to know why air travel is so cheap and what's wrong with cheap flights anyway - we all need a bit of sunshine don't we? And we're on an island after all.

And aren't all the airlines going sustainable anyway?

We hear a lot in the Irish media about the need to raise the Dublin airport passenger cap but not so much about the impact of air travel on the environment, or about how airlines can offer such cheap fares. Which begs the question, why are the Irish press so obsessed with celebrating aviation and overlooking the climate implications of flying?

In this climate question episode, Ciara, Darragh and Anna go deep on air travel, why it's such a big source of pollution, the real costs of flying, and whether 'net zero targets' are real.

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Find out more:

Check out episode 15 of Hot Mess with Phillip Boucher-Hayes

Read about the Aviation tax gap | DigitalOcean

The Climate Alarm Clock is back, and we've just turned 3 years old!

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Darragh, Ciara and Tom talk over the new reports from the WWF and the EPA.

The Living Planet Reprt 2024 , is a stark report released by the World Wildlife Fund, reporting on biodiversity loss all over the world.

Irelands Environmental Protection Agency has released Ireland's Shtate of the Environment Report 2024 about how the nations effort to combat the climate crisis is going, or not going as the case may be.

What can we do?

Organisations like Cuan beo, Corrib Beo, Boyne Rivers Trust! Waters of Life - lists trusts around Ireland to check out. Channel your despondence into joining a group!

Climate Action Week! Get involved!!

Check out the wildling movie on Thursday evening.

Climate Justice Universities Union have a meeting, 21st November

Your Parks, Your Say

Samhain Festival of Food & Culture - https://foodcultureireland.ie/samhain/

festival showcases the very best of Irish food and drink, food culture and history through a weekend long series of events from food & drinks tastings and cookery demonstrations, to food safaris, farm visits, kids workshops, discussions and debates with Ireland’s foremost culinary experts