{"id":34004,"date":"2019-10-11T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34004"},"modified":"2019-10-11T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:19:59","slug":"enviro-7th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=34004","title":{"rendered":"Enviro: 7th October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-07-20-2019%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this edition of Enviro:<\/p>\n<p>Extinction Rebellion Week Extinction Rebellion (XR) Extinction Rebellion (XR) is getting geared up for<br \/>\nnonviolent direct action and public events including a week of action from 7th October. Its goals in Ireland are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Demand 1: Tell The Truth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Demand 2: Act Like It\u2019s An Emergency<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Demand 3: Ensure A Just Transition<\/p>\n<p>Our views on Extinction: John asked panellist Joe Dunne and student guest Calvin of their views with<br \/>\nregard to extinction and there was remarkable agreement between the two. This was surprising to John as<br \/>\nCalvin is a student and we would have anticipated an optimistic perspective from him. He was remarkably<br \/>\nfrank that we were heading towards extinction.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Seamus O\u2019Brien of the National Botanic gardens spelled out his trees and forestry ideas in a recent<br \/>\nnewspaper article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ireland\u2019s trees face growing challenges in era of climate change Adaptation<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>HS2 is a new high-speed\u00a0rail\u00a0network, from London to Birmingham and to Manchester and Leeds. Pressure<br \/>\ngroup Stop HS2\u00a0believes that the operation of the line will cause increasing carbon emissions, as well as<br \/>\ndamage to areas of natural beauty and the ecosystems they support. The Woodland Trust the largest native<br \/>\nwoodland voluntary tree organisation is organising opposition to the project in its present form. Pointing out<br \/>\nthat it would smash through 34 ancient woodlands between London and Birmingham.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Film maker Michael Moore has joined actor Mark Ruffalo and 50 environmental groups from Ireland and the<br \/>\nUS in their opposition to the import of fracked gas from the US and has urged the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to<br \/>\nexpress their opposition and request the Irish government to withdraw its support.<\/p>\n<p><em>Producer presenter John Haughton <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Panellist Joe Dunne <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Guest Student Calvin from Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of Enviro: Extinction Rebellion Week Extinction Rebellion (XR) Extinction Rebellion (XR) is getting geared up for nonviolent direct action and public events including a week of action from 7th October. Its goals in Ireland are: Demand 1: Tell The Truth Demand 2: Act Like It\u2019s An Emergency Demand 3: Ensure A Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3936,13572,16064,16063,16065],"class_list":["post-34004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-extinction-rebellion","tag-high-speed-rail-network","tag-hs2","tag-irelands-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34005,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions\/34005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}