The growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be curbed at reasonable cost, experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have agreed. Will this change anything?
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Yesterday I was in a supermarket at lunchtime. I watched as someone brought an apple, put it in a small plastic fruit bag, went to the till and put the small bag in a carrier bag. She probably got in her car drove for 1/2 mile back to work and chucked the bags in the bin. If everyone keeps creating waste like this we are all stuffed.
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key word there, cost. There isn't the political will to sacrifice economic growth or let anohter country have a comparative advantage over them so it won't happen
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