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Speaker 1: So last night on One News I heard the single

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Speaker 1: most logical, insane thing said on that bulletin in a

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Speaker 1: very long time. And it was said by Simon Upton,

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Speaker 1: the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, a very smart man,

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Speaker 1: a Rhodes scholar, a former Minister for the Environment, for

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Speaker 1: National and this is what Simon Upton said. We should,

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Speaker 1: in an orderly way take forestry out of the emission's

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Speaker 1: trading scheme. Blow me over with a feather. I thought,

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Speaker 1: why has it taken so long for someone so smart

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Speaker 1: to come out and say this so publicly. We should,

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Speaker 1: in an orderly way take forestry out of the emissions

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Speaker 1: trading scheme. Forestry for climate change has been a Ponsi scheme.

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Speaker 1: In fact, last night the bulletin, the One News bulletin,

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Speaker 1: the Reporter called it a golden ticket. It's swamp productive

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Speaker 1: land for easy gain. It's caused rampant wildling growth through

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Speaker 1: our wildlands. In the essence, pines and exotic stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: just a big weed unless you're farming it for wood

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Speaker 1: and paper. And even then that market's turning a little

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Speaker 1: bit sour. Has it done anything to reduce emissions? No,

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Speaker 1: The numbers kept going up and up each year. We've

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Speaker 1: had long enough for proof it has not. It has

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Speaker 1: provided excuses for well meeting pop bands to travel the

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Speaker 1: world in private jets, planting useless forests in their wake

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Speaker 1: and claiming moral superiority. But then the one news bit

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Speaker 1: went and completely missed the point. The headline was we

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Speaker 1: should plant natives instead of pine, which he kind of

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Speaker 1: did say, but only if we keep on going with

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Speaker 1: the nutso forest planting scheme. What Simon proposed was completely

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Speaker 1: removing the ability of carbon polluters to rely on planting

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Speaker 1: trees to meet their climate obligations. That's a direct quote.

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Speaker 1: Here's another, as Simon said, the world actually needs real

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Speaker 1: reductions and gross ebmissions, not an accounting triumph hallelujah. If

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Speaker 1: you want to cut your emissions, then cut your emissions,

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Speaker 1: but don't plant a tree. For more from early edition

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