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you've got too many people you've got

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you've got capitalism that always

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expects

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gain growth

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and um

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so the whole the whole thing's

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i haven't sworn yet yeah it grabs free

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energy

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from the outside amazing yeah i don't

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police it no

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i don't know if it actually works out

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cheaper electricity is cheaper after 7

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p.m and it's cheapest between 10 p.m and

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5 a.m

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is it affordable to be

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environmentally friendly it's very

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expensive the real question is do you

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really want to damage the environment

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that you live in

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do you want to pollute this place or not

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you don't have to get into agreeing or

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disagreeing about

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climate studies and this and that it's

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like do you want to pour oil in this

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spot we're in now or don't you do you

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want to damage where you live or don't

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you and then there's no argument hello

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welcome to easy english today i want to

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know what the people of brighton are

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doing to help protect the environment

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anything specifically they might be

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doing or any cost efficient life hacks

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they might have up their sleeve before

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we start please don't forget to like and

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subscribe here we go what do you do

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specifically sort of help the

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environment okay well recycling yeah

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yeah we recycle

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as much as we possibly can

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um

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don't drop any litter

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that's that's pretty much um

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i don't eat meat maybe

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a really half a half of the week

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not fully vegetarian or vegan but

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flexitarian yeah like

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trying to

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be conscious about that in a more

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practical sort of day-to-day sense yeah

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and affordable i guess

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um

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would you what do you do

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like i've got blinds and curtains

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right because my windows are crappy

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so it keeps more of the heat

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in uh and i only boil as much water as i

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need for a cup of tea or whatever that's

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a good which saves on water and um

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electricity yeah

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um and something i learned recently is

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that electricity is cheaper after 7 pm

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and it's cheapest between 10 pm and 5 am

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so if i'm putting on the dishwasher or

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i'm putting on a load of washing then

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i'll do it after 10 pm what do you do

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for the environment personally

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what recycling wise and all that is that

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really you do sort of the generic yeah

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like the general sort of going to your

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local

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recycling center or do you have your own

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recycling bin or something we've got all

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our own bins yeah our own recycling bins

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but i also go down to a place called the

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green center brighton which is in the

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open market on the london road and it's

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a sort of

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charity

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organization that

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takes in and recycles

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a lot of things that the council won't

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take

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so they take oh i don't know what's in

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hinds like

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biro pens foil um

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food pouches baby food pouches pet food

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pouches they're just the whole range of

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things they're taking you know

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there's a list of a couple of dozen

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things that they take and um so we we

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sort of keep our stuff in the garage and

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then once a month we hop down there and

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take all our bits and pieces down

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um so that's that's

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i found that quite good um

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because it means there's a lot less

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things going into our actual rubbish bin

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what is it you do

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to help with climate change or the

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environment right i've been

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supporting the green party for a long

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time and trying to do things that are

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environmentally sound so like i don't

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drive i use public transport

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compost

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stuff

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my old house i had an airsoft heat pump

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for all over months because we then

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mowed which was a shame but that was

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brilliant what did you have sorry an air

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source heat pump air source heat pump

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yeah to get rid of gas

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um so that was

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that was quite an undertaking but it was

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brilliant i can highly recommend them

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despite all the bad press that they have

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and then we moved to salt dean and we've

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just two weeks ago got solar panels

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which is

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fascinating but it's a bit scary because

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i keep having alarms going off at the

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minute so they're sorting out something

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that's wrong with them

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because the lives going off we're off

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grid

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for

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most of the day now so that's great yeah

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i'm afraid

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i have a bleak opinion

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or not a bleak outlook which is

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i don't think there is anything i think

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i i believe the terms um what is it um

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gesture politics

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it falls into that like oh i'm i don't

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eat meat anymore all right great

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and uh what about africa what about

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india and what about all these other

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places that have

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huge amounts of resource needs and they

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look at us and go we want to have a

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slice of that yeah

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i just think it's a drop in the ocean

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what i mean it's very defeatist i do

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accept that my point of view

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but

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i mean i like to recycle stuff but i

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mean probably gets burned in in new

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haven in in the in the in the um

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power station there so it's like oh i'm

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i could go on recycling but it's getting

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english videos now back to the episode

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and how long have you been flexitarian

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uh maybe a year and you do this for

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environmental purposes yeah yeah for

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health environmental you know my friends

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are full-on vegan

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so he's kind of imparting on me a little

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bit so i'm trying to

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do it i can't fully commit to it but

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he's inspired you he's inspired me a bit

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yeah and what about like food waste do

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you have any like clever food waste

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stuff

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unfortunately not i mean i've got a dog

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that helps with most things

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that's a bin right there yeah and i try

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and cook in big batches so that then i

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can like portion it up and put some

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portions in the freezer great um that's

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that's a good one is putting portions in

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the freezer because then if you don't

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want to eat the same thing for a whole

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week

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you don't have to yeah yeah you can cook

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something else but you're not wasting

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the food we try to use environmentally

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friendly products for sort of cleaning

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and stuff like that um i've i got oh

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i don't know a few years ago now i got

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into using a sort of vinegar and lemon

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mixture for doing a lot of cleaning

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around the house yeah i've seen a lot of

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that yeah um

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uh

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we try to buy things that have got less

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plastic packaging yeah those sorts of

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things and the lemonade vinegar thing is

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that like an alternative to bleach is

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that what you'd say um it's a general

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cleaner i mean it's great on glass and

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mirrors and things like that um tiles

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those sort of things but it's also a

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natural disinfectant anti-antibacterial

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um so it's it's good for like cleaning

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your bathroom basins kitchen worktops

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things like that so yeah it's good it

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seems that you do a lot yeah and my

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question is is it affordable to be

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environmentally friendly it's very

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expensive i got a grant towards the heat

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pump all right but um

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that was that's the green homes grant

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that the government really screwed up on

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but

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until more people use them the price

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isn't going to come down so you need

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more people to start using them and then

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the manufacturers will be able to

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produce more in bulk and

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ideally that that would be cheaper

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though exactly and then what um if let's

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say for example you have to give a

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recommendation someone who maybe doesn't

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have like sufficient funds yes what is

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like something that you really recommend

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them doing to help

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use public transport

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yeah and

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walk

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and yeah i just i think just being

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conscious of energy is quite honestly i

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mean

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you know my sons

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will have the heating up and wear shorts

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i think put clothes on and turn the

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heating off this is scrooge yeah i think

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we're just we're profligate with the use

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of you know

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stuff that's

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important really here's maybe a fun one

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then give us uh give us like a positive

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like uh

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positive positive summary a positive

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summary of

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anything

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listen to more music and go clubbing

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that's what i would say

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but in terms of climate or environment

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is that is there a positive outlook

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i'll be serious now the the the way out

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is nuclear um fusion

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right okay that's the way out this is

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the big gesture that needs to happen now

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this will this is the only way out um

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you know you can have your wind farms

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you can have all that and of course it

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is it is useful yeah

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but it's not going to deal with 7

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billion people and a nuclear fusion is

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the the route out of this it will remove

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our reliance on fossil fuels it will

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completely unburden us it will probably

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burn us from all of the geopolitical

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issues that we're currently facing

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so

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and you know

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with the manhattan project

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um i can't i don't know how many

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hundreds of people were involved

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and i don't know what to what the

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equivalent cost would be in today's

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terms right but i bet

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um

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i bet if we spent the same amount

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collectively yeah or even if it was just

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the west

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europe uk

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japan us if we all put our heads

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together and said right this is a

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technological problem not a scientific

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problem it's just it's just technology

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then we could find a way to actually get

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it working i mean we're getting closer

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all the time

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but if we really put money into it in a

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big way

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that's a no-brainer

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but it's got the word nuclear people

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don't like that either they do not even

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even if they are ignorant and stupid

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about about the i mean this is just it's

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just the sun harnessing the sun it's

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just it's so elegant as well

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anyway that's the positive thing fusion

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right to your mp

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thanks for watching this week's video

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let us know in the comments below

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anything that you're doing to help

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protect the environment and any tips and

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tricks that you might have and we'll see

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you next week bye

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