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Speaker 1: I paid forty cents for a paper bag while shopping

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Speaker 1: at my local supermarket the other week. Forty cents. Remember

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Speaker 1: when they used to cost ten cents back in the

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Speaker 1: day when they swapped them out for plastic bags when

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Speaker 1: they ban those which used to be free. By the way,

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Speaker 1: forty cents And guess what they had printed on the

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Speaker 1: side of this paper bag that you buy to put

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Speaker 1: your groceries in. They had printed little Christmas trees for

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Speaker 1: goodness sake, So you chop down trees, you make paper bags,

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Speaker 1: and then you print more trees on them, and we're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be saving the planet. This is stupid. It's dumb,

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Speaker 1: and it's forty cents. It's a lot of money. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot more than free, which is what we used

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Speaker 1: to get the plastic bags for. And they're not reusable.

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Speaker 1: You put a two liter of milk in there, it's wet,

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Speaker 1: it's sulky, and it just falls straight through. It's not

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Speaker 1: a reusable thing. And here's the problem I think with

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Speaker 1: environment and no one. People are probably over the paper

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Speaker 1: bag thing and used to it by now, and take

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Speaker 1: your own bad eggs is the other thing. But I forgot,

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Speaker 1: So what are you going to do. But here's the

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Speaker 1: thing with environmental costly environmental policies. This is stuff like

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Speaker 1: you know, your emissions trading scheme, charge on the petrol

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Speaker 1: that you put in your tank, or on farmers, or

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Speaker 1: the ute tax or the cycle way bills that we

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Speaker 1: are paying for. The issue with all of this is

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Speaker 1: getting us on board with paying to fix the planet

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Speaker 1: when we're such a small part of it. You know,

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Speaker 1: are we really saving all the dolphins and whales and

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Speaker 1: turtles in the ocean by paying forty cents for a

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Speaker 1: paper bag at countdown? No? Because the ocean's still filled

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Speaker 1: with plastic. So what's the point is you know, shi

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Speaker 1: Jingping still opening coal fired power plants? Yes? Is Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump about to start drilling helpful leather for more oil? Yes?

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Speaker 1: So you know, what are we doing? What difference are

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Speaker 1: we making? Why should we bother? They just had the

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Speaker 1: climate change conference in Azerbaijan, the Petro state, for goodness sakes,

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Speaker 1: and everyone flew there on an airplane And I'm paying

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Speaker 1: forty cents for a paper bag. For more from early

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