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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		How the climate change debate was cooked
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:17:03
	Publish Date:		2019-12-02 11:00:00
	Description:		Most days, it feels like Australia's climate wars have been raging forever, but it wasn't always this way. In 2007, there was bipartisan support for a price on carbon. 12 years later, at the UN's climate change summit in Madrid this week, no-one's expecting Australia to raise its emissions targets. Climate change is now Australia's most intractable partisan issue, and the idea of an emissions trading scheme is the political equivalent of smallpox. So how did the war begin? And is peace possible?
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