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429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

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Reusing, Recycling, Reusing and Recycle - Is It a Good Idea?

I do think a lot of people are interested in re using or recreating or re cycling things, but right now it's quite difficult. It's still cheaper to dig the mines and get all e the raw materials from other parts of the world to the netherlands. That's cheaper for a producer than to actually recycle. One of the things that we need to do is to completely change our tax system. Right now, we do have low taxes on primary resources, and we have very high taxes on labor....

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