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Speaker 1: I have had it with people running around pretending that

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Speaker 1: we are all going to solve the world's big global problems.

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Speaker 1: We're not. Just stop it. Australia's banning kids from social

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Speaker 1: media on Wednesday. They're going to be world leading and

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Speaker 1: doing this sounds very appealing, stop the brain rot, etc.

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Speaker 1: Except that kids will be kids and they will just

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Speaker 1: get around it. They will go They'll do the same

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Speaker 1: thing that I did when I lived in China using

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Speaker 1: Facebook and get around the big firewall. You use a VPN,

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Speaker 1: simply log into an app and piggyback off another country's Internet,

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Speaker 1: or they might get a fake ID, or they might

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Speaker 1: set up a fake account and another jurisdiction. Good luck

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Speaker 1: with this actually working. Same goes for climate change. Remember

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Speaker 1: we were once world leading on climate Well, the problem

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Speaker 1: with being world leading is that you actually need others

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Speaker 1: to follow. Otherwise you're not world leading. You're just out

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Speaker 1: there on your own an anomaly. What's the point in

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Speaker 1: stopping your cows burping? If the Aussies keep mining, the

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Speaker 1: Chinese keep burning coal in the Saudi's keep drilling for oil.

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Speaker 1: Climate change and the internet post similar problems because they

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Speaker 1: are global in nature, and because they are global in nature.

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Speaker 1: You need kumbaia from all corners of the globe to

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Speaker 1: address them. Look how that goes and works for the

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Speaker 1: UN It doesn't, does it? You know that? The truth

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Speaker 1: of it is, if we really wanted to solve these problems,

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Speaker 1: if we really did, the quickest, most effective way would

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Speaker 1: be individual action, wouldn't it. We could each and every

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Speaker 1: one of us tomorrow take phones off children and put

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Speaker 1: them in the bin. We could walk to work tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and not drive our cars. But we won't, will we.

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Speaker 1: A pole out of Australia says seventy percent of parents

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Speaker 1: there support the ban. Guess how many said in the

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Speaker 1: very same pole they would actually enforce it with their

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Speaker 1: own children, less than a third. It's the same logic

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Speaker 1: that has seen the Ford Ranger ute, the gas guzzler,

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Speaker 1: the big Martro ball of an A to B topping

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Speaker 1: the top sales list of vehicles in this country for

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Speaker 1: ten years running. And that's the real problem with these

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Speaker 1: global problems. Governments make a big song and dance, but fundamentally, individually,

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Speaker 1: we don't actually see them as real problems, do we.

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