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oh Lloyd, given you've avoided Cross Country Checkup your entire life, you just haven't kept up with how callers are screened. Cranks don't really ever get through, unless they have a reasoned argument, at which point, they aren't really cranks spouting clichés and other crankinesses.

I listed to CCC on Sunday, the two hours occuring between Kamloops to Revelstoke: small car, with dogs, lots of food, etc -- all impossible by air, by ebike, by foot, by train as the train no longer does this route. Almost everyone who called in tried to limit their footprint, their consumption, their waste, their plastic, but sometimes -- well, most of the time actually -- it is impossible. Manufactured products and food are always wrapped in plastic. Most of us can't actually afford to buy a heat pump no matter how much their price has gone down. I don't buy any products these days, just food in its raw state; I make everything: clothes, dog food and still find it hard to get by. This seemed to be a common refrain on Sunday.

Your stats that you didn't get a chance to air, seem incredibly rosy. The callers to the radio program kept pointing out the gap between the desire to do the right thing, and the real, on the ground, difficulty in doing so.

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