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Speaker 1: So we've adjusted our climate target last week, a climate

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Speaker 1: target which in and of itself, as far as I

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Speaker 1: can work out, it's part of the whole climate debate malaise.

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Speaker 1: There are so many targets involving Paris or not involving Paris,

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Speaker 1: or timelines twenty thirty, twenty thirty five, twenty forty, twenty

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Speaker 1: fifty five percent down on nineteen ninety one, two thousand,

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Speaker 1: So many numbers, so much noise. It's no wonder so

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Speaker 1: many of us have turned off. It's not that the

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Speaker 1: broad idea doesn't have some merit, it's just how to

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Speaker 1: kill the buzz obsession, Like the greens anger fury, Too

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Speaker 1: many numbers, classic recipe to lose the room. Anyway, we

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Speaker 1: adjusted one of our targets. It's not as high as

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Speaker 1: it was. Que the usual outrage. But is it time

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Speaker 1: to ask, even if reluctantly, to ask the question as

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Speaker 1: to whether playing our part, if not leading the way,

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Speaker 1: as laudable as it may be, is now just a

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Speaker 1: pointless exercise. It's always been true that no matter what

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Speaker 1: we did, it would literally make no difference to the planet,

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Speaker 1: but doing our bit was important. So with Trump here

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Speaker 1: and America out, of Paris and China and India and Brazil,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, doing nothing but boosting as what here at

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the world is the point ah, because

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Speaker 1: what has become indisputably clear is that one Paris will

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Speaker 1: not be met. None of these targets are ever met.

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Speaker 1: Two the price seems high economically. I mean, read the

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Speaker 1: piece over the weekend in Britain where it was announced

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Speaker 1: nine percent of farmland has to go gone. Eventually it

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Speaker 1: will be twenty percent, a fifth of all land in Britain.

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Speaker 1: Farmland needs to be interfered with in some way so

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Speaker 1: they can meet their climate targets. Nice, clean air, fabulous,

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Speaker 1: just can't feed the people. It's a hopeless ask. It's

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Speaker 1: not real. Hopefully science will save us, as Nick said,

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Speaker 1: because it's increasingly obvious, you've got the lethal combination of

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Speaker 1: the countries that don't care, made worse by the fact

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Speaker 1: they tend to be the large countries, and the economic

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Speaker 1: sacrifice made by everyone else that is simply increasingly beyond

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Speaker 1: the pale. We're not putting up with it. In simple terms,

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Speaker 1: you need to give up economic growth in order to

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Speaker 1: freshen the air or clear the atmosphere that to my eye,

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Speaker 1: is an argument that, as more and more evidence of

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Speaker 1: failure mounts, is not only never going to be one,

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Speaker 1: but harder and harder to even start. For more from

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