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Speaker 1: Question for you, is it possible one of the great

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Speaker 1: mistakes of the modern era has been made around our cities.

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Speaker 1: These and I think are increasing times or areas of

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Speaker 1: life in which the theory, the promise, the dream is not

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Speaker 1: only not coming to pass, but it's possible it never will.

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Speaker 1: See the ev industry globally as in a major state

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Speaker 1: of flux at the moment. Any number of large producers

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Speaker 1: have not only promised to stop selling engines by twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty ish, they now well, they've now realized, of course

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Speaker 1: that's not real, so they've had to backtrack. But they've

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Speaker 1: also realized that all the money they didn't spend on

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Speaker 1: the next generation of engines has been lost and they

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Speaker 1: now have to fill the gap renewables. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: this this morning. They're in a similar place. Larry Allison

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Speaker 1: this week told investors AI is so crazy when it

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Speaker 1: comes to power consumption. They're at Oracle now building a

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Speaker 1: data center that will be run by three small nuclear reactors.

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Speaker 1: Now the world largely doesn't have such reactors right now,

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Speaker 1: and it certainly doesn't have the renewable capability to run

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Speaker 1: such data centers. And then to downtown New Zealand, reform

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Speaker 1: of city centers was predicated on several theories. Essentially, essentially,

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Speaker 1: we want to save the planet while living like Europe.

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Speaker 1: What we've ended up with is Downtown Auckland, Downtown Toweronga,

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Speaker 1: Downtown Wellington, all, if not destroyed, certainly in a state

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Speaker 1: no one's proud of as the bike lane's, bus lanes,

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Speaker 1: lack of parking is taking its toll. The businesses have closed,

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Speaker 1: the people have gone home, never to come back, The

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Speaker 1: mulls are popped up in suburbia, and the CBD has

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Speaker 1: shot to pieces. We weren't like Europe. We aren't Europe

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Speaker 1: never will be. Do. We live in an age where

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Speaker 1: the concept of the illusion of what could be is

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Speaker 1: driven by the bandwagon of the day. Something the idea

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Speaker 1: logs leap on board with no real insight as to

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Speaker 1: what might actually be required for it to come to pass,

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Speaker 1: driven of course by good intention, but appalling planning urged

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Speaker 1: on by NGOs and the like. You need a buzz

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Speaker 1: phrase or an agenda to keep them well, keep pushing

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Speaker 1: to maintain relevance of indeed not funding people who want

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Speaker 1: to be on the perceived right side of the hot

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Speaker 1: new trend. And it all comes at a huge cost

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Speaker 1: these downtown areas of tomorrow. Just when is tomorrow? When

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Speaker 1: is Wellington going to be the pedestrian magnet, the cobbled

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Speaker 1: hub Win, does Auckland wear itself out with all the

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Speaker 1: new outlet's opening in Queen Street? When does Twonga cut

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Speaker 1: its umpteenth ribbon on the mecha that is the revitalized

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Speaker 1: CBD drawing fans from near and far. Or was it

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Speaker 1: simply a good picture on a whiteboard that will never,

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