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It's not often that someone goes from living on the edges of society

to being an influential multi-millionaire.

One headline, who is Dale Vintz? The hippie turned eco-tankoon funding the green zealots.

Dale Vince has the ear of the government, and from the climate emergency to taxing millionaires,

he's a loud and progressive voice for change.

The rules of business, our economy, all of that kind of stuff, even our tax

system, they aren't like the laws of physics. They aren't things we can't break. They're man-made.

We can change them. In a special episode, the Green Entrepreneur and Labor Party donor tells us why

he believes he's leading the way to a cleaner, greener world. I'm John Harris and you're listening to

Politics Week in the UK for The Guardian.

Dale Vince has had quite a life. There aren't a lot of people who went from life as a modern

nomad, towing cars out of the mud at Glastonbury to being one of the Labour Party's biggest

financial backers and a champion of green electricity,

but that's the bare bones of his story. Dale also used to be a major supporter of the climate activist group Just Stop Oil, and he's long been an advocate for green energy and climate action,

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