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Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429 Update)

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Reusing and Recreating Is a Good Idea for the Netherlands

I do think a lot of people are interested in reusing or recreating or recycling things but right now it's quite difficult. It's still cheaper to dig the mines and get all the raw materials from other parts of the world to the Netherlands than to actually recycle. So we need this incentive to make recycling and reusing and recreating much more interesting for a producer than raw mining. Amsterdam has an economy which is highly dependent on tourists. If the economy goes well, our economy goes well but also if it goes bad, it goes very bad in Amsterdam. I do think that by showing that using things again is not only saving the earth but it's also creating lots of employment.

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