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Speaker 1: Interesting but good move, I think overall, I thought about

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Speaker 1: this yesterday afternoon of the announcement came out. This is

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Speaker 1: on the forestry and farming. See it's another example of

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Speaker 1: practical thinking and application in an area that relied to

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Speaker 1: be frank on laziness to solve a problem. Ever since

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Speaker 1: we became obsessed with climate change, and we became obsessed

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Speaker 1: with things that might or might not address climate change,

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Speaker 1: the low hanging fruit has been trees in carbon markets.

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Speaker 1: Now carbon Market says we've seen yet again this year

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Speaker 1: don't work. Government MUCKs around with the rules, change the prices,

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Speaker 1: freaks the market out, and all the credits that go

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Speaker 1: up for sale, by and large don't get sold. They

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Speaker 1: all pile into the next auction and don't get sold

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Speaker 1: until they get piled into the fourth and final oction

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Speaker 1: of the year, whereby they're not sold again. So they

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Speaker 1: then get dumped. Dumped as in they never actually existed.

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Speaker 1: Of course, in the first place, it's a mad invented

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Speaker 1: idea that only works of people believe it works, and

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Speaker 1: so far they don't. Then we plant trees, why because

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Speaker 1: it's easy. So a paddock of trees or a paddock

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Speaker 1: of sheep or crops or cows. In a country where

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Speaker 1: we already build too many houses on productive land, also

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Speaker 1: planting trees on that sort of land is criminal and stupid.

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Speaker 1: What this country does is feed the world. Our ability

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Speaker 1: on quality in many areas is unmatched, and we get

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Speaker 1: the price returned for it. But and here is where

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Speaker 1: the old freedom of movement and thinking comes in. If

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Speaker 1: you've got one hundred hectares and you want to sell

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Speaker 1: it to and the person who wants to buy it

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Speaker 1: wants to plant trees, is offering more than the bloke

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Speaker 1: next door who wants to expand as farm and keep sheep.

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Speaker 1: You are now potentially limited by a government that has

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Speaker 1: decided for you what you do with your property, and

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Speaker 1: that's always a fairly tricky area. Ultimately, though, governments must

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Speaker 1: act in these circumstances on behalf of the nation. And

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Speaker 1: if we aren't so reliant on food as a producer,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we were a tech center or a

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Speaker 1: space center, or an oil center, or a strategic global

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Speaker 1: based like Singapore or Dubai, it might be different. But

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Speaker 1: land is our calling card and one day we will

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Speaker 1: work out trees aren't the answer to climate change, and

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Speaker 1: by the time we work that out, reconverting that land

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Speaker 1: won't be possible, So in that sense, this decision basically

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Speaker 1: saves us from ourselves. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast,

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