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Ryan Bridge: The problem with COP29 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody who's got a trillion dollars to spare
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  Speaker 1: this morning, have you? That's the value of our new
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  Speaker 1: climate change tab from COP twenty nine. The Climate change
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  Speaker 1: conference this year, all the officials, the politicians, the experts,
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  Speaker 1: the industry, every man and his dog has flown to
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  Speaker 1: Azerbaijan to lecture everybody not in the room about climate change.
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  Speaker 1: And they're already cranking the classics through the stage speakers.
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  Speaker 1: We're at a turning point, the Paris Agreements, at a
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  Speaker 1: crucial tipping point, because Donald Trump's going to pull out,
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  Speaker 1: even though we've been through this crucial tipping point before.
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  Speaker 1: Last time he was in our house, is burning all
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  Speaker 1: the classics. And this is the problem with Cop insert
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  Speaker 1: number here. No one really listens. Every year they make
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  Speaker 1: the same pilgrimage and give the same speech, and every
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  Speaker 1: year we shrug our shoulders and wonder, why doesn't the
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  Speaker 1: number ever match the year? Shouldn't it be COP twenty four?
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, back to them all for another coffee at
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  Speaker 1: Robert Harry Rus. I also need to pick up some
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  Speaker 1: presents from Kmart for the grandkids this Christmas. Things to
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  Speaker 1: do if the definition of insanity is doing the same
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  Speaker 1: thing every year, over and over and expecting a different
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  Speaker 1: result than These guys are beyond nuts. The big push
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  Speaker 1: this year is finance. They wanted rich countries supposedly like ours,
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  Speaker 1: to pay one hundred billion dollars a year to poor
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  Speaker 1: countries to stop them from burning coal and adapting to
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  Speaker 1: climate change by twenty twenty. Well, we missed that goal,
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  Speaker 1: and now they want a trillion dollars a year. That's
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  Speaker 1: one thousand billion, or four elon musks. Despite all the
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  Speaker 1: talk and flying around in threats and end of day's speeches,
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  Speaker 1: global emissions went up last year, reaching record levels. Do
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  Speaker 1: we care about climate change? Yes, enough to change our
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  Speaker 1: habits in a major way. No, we keep electing leaders
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  Speaker 1: to fix other things like inflation, and until that changes,
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  Speaker 1: or all of our houses actually do catch fire, will
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  Speaker 1: be at the mall down at Robert Harris not listening
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