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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Tony Blair. New Reporter's part of sees them

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Speaker 1: joining the growing lists who argue that net zero is doomed.

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Speaker 1: Net zero will be doomed, whether we do anything about

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Speaker 1: it or not. No one's going to jail if they

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Speaker 1: don't reach net zero, of course, it's just that we

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Speaker 1: can avoid a lot of needles damage along the way

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Speaker 1: by recognizing its early and baling, so our economies can

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Speaker 1: be put back on some sort of level footing. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: there's growing anger and Spain over last week's power blackout,

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Speaker 1: with a lot of people blaming the renewable aspect of

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Speaker 1: their supply chain. A Spain is over fifty percent renewable,

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Speaker 1: by the way, which is high for Europe, their argument

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Speaker 1: being the higher the reliance on renewables, the more fragilely

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Speaker 1: grid is. Here. Farmers are furious once again over the

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Speaker 1: new settings for the ets. We've gone from fifty percent

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Speaker 1: to fifty one percent reductions only because Paris says each

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Speaker 1: year you need to adjust up, so they adjusted the

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Speaker 1: least they could, but they still acquiesced to what was

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Speaker 1: signed up years ago, when net zero was a bullish theory,

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Speaker 1: not an economy sapping reality. The Climate Commission the other

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Speaker 1: day put new targets for credits and pricing on the

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Speaker 1: carbon auctions. They were completely different to last year's in

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Speaker 1: a we make it up because we don't really know

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Speaker 1: what's going on kind of way. We've stumbled and bumbled

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Speaker 1: basically our way through all of this, hurting our living

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Speaker 1: standards and to what end? Emissions are in fact down

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand? Yah yas. Is the world any better? No,

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Speaker 1: which is why Blair joins Bad Knock in calling it

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Speaker 1: all out. The Reform Party are booming in no small

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Speaker 1: way because they've called it all nonsense as well. So

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Speaker 1: between Blair, Parage and Bad Knock that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: cross political support to tip up an increasingly obvious dead

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Speaker 1: end idea like me too under Council culture and all

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Speaker 1: the other band wagons that got fashionable, and that zero

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Speaker 1: is destined for the same end. Not that helping the

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Speaker 1: planet isn't good or laudable, but what we didn't understand

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Speaker 1: then but clearly do now is at what price? And

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Speaker 1: are we prepared to pay it? And given the answers no,

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Speaker 1: a few more Blair, Bad Knock and Farage type voices

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