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May 2025
23m 57s

Ep 29 - Shipping

RtÉ Radio 1
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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. 
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