Today on Mario`s Sunday Roast, Mario was joined by Laura O`Mahony, one third of comedy group CCCahoots and Irish environmental campaigner John Gibbons. There were some hot topics on the table including the story of Ryanair becoming the first airline to make it into Europe`s top 10 polluters. The list is dominated by firms that run coal fired power plants and are mostly German and Polish. John tells us The European Union says that without any action, CO2 emissions from aviation are set to grow by up to 300% by 2050. The failure to tax aviation fuel is the key reason why flying remains so cheap, even though emissions from aviation are even more damaging to the atmosphere as they are mostly release at high altitude.

John`s big idea is to introduce on an EU wide basis a "flying allowance" or ration electronically linked to your PPS number and strictly non-transferable. As you can imagine we got a very mixed reaction to this proposal!

Just about to go on air with ⁦@GiftGrubMario⁩ & Laura O’Mahony on ⁦@TodayFM⁩ - should be fun! pic.twitter.com/pc0nABxCG5

— John Gibbons (@think_or_swim) April 7, 2019

 

@think_or_swim @TodayFM Tuned in to listen to John Gibbons talking about our Climate crisis. He was totally uncontroversial and listening to the comments, you'd think he was an alien. Come on Ireland. Crikey depressing!

— Wilderness Blooms (@wilderblooms) April 7, 2019

 

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