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Speaker 1: A couple of hard core reality checks this week as

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Speaker 1: a result of the arrival of the Trump sequel, BP

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Speaker 1: summed up the climate dilemma very succinctly. I thought we

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Speaker 1: got it wrong on net zero. We got it wrong

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Speaker 1: on net zero. Net zero has become an unobtainable obsession,

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Speaker 1: a business decision for many thousands of companies all over

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Speaker 1: the world, driven not by clear sighted intelligence but woke

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Speaker 1: nonsense and a desire not to stand out from the crowd.

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Speaker 1: That mad, insecure feeling you had when you were ten

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Speaker 1: in the schoolyard, not to look different, say anything unusual,

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Speaker 1: or attract attention, as it turns out, stays with you

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Speaker 1: all the way up to the boardrooms who get sucked

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Speaker 1: into believing that spending billions, cutting jobs, foregoing growth would

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Speaker 1: somehow lead to saving the planet. We got it wrong

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Speaker 1: on net zero. So BP are back in the oil

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Speaker 1: business because Trump said drill, Baby, Drill. That was a

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Speaker 1: campaign slogan in an American election with a flow on

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Speaker 1: clearly that affected the whole world. And then eight nothing

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Speaker 1: wrong with aid but a Labour prime minister in Britain

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Speaker 1: cut aid to pay for defense, and the pole said

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Speaker 1: he did the right thing. Y six percent of Britain

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Speaker 1: think there's been too much on AID, and when they

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Speaker 1: hear a transportation system for refugees in Eastern Europe uses

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Speaker 1: a Porsche dealer and they are paying for it, who

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Speaker 1: can blame them? Our aid in the Pacific, until recently

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Speaker 1: largely unaudited. The idea of helping the helpless is worthy,

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Speaker 1: but the reason it never ends is because AID becomes

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Speaker 1: an industry and the helpless really get actual help. UNRA,

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Speaker 1: as a UNAID agency, have a look at their record

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Speaker 1: and see how keen you are to keep giving. It

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Speaker 1: is human nature. Most ideas start off well but blow

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Speaker 1: out into a combination of madness, waste, expansion, slackness until

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Speaker 1: someone comes along and says enough. The core principles of

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Speaker 1: AID and a cleaner planet remain laudable goals and ideals,

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Speaker 1: But until we can bring some discipline to the execution,

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Speaker 1: some rigid to the containment and parameters of the targets,

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Speaker 1: and some realism around what's actually practically achievable, it will

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Speaker 1: always be hijacked by the tryhards, do good as and zealots.

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Speaker 1: We will always make the same mistake. It will end

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Speaker 1: up needing. A German election type result or a Trump

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Speaker 1: type victory to bring us back to our senses. For

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