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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is the government's tree talk hot air?
Description: Not that long ago, I was talking to a guy who said it was perfectly fine for him to use some old floorboards he’d ripped up out of his kitchen for firewood, because China and India are polluting the atmosphere and so what difference can he make? These boards were coated in a dark, shiny varnish and they just screamed out “poison” to me. But, you know, until China and India lift their game and stop spewing toxic stuff into the environment, why should he bother? And, you know, it’s free firewood. That was his at...