In the middle of a fossil fuel crisis, itâs time to shout the clean energy message loud and clear | Zoe Daniel
The case for renewables is clear. Every extra EV on an Australian road is litres of petrol saved, every home battery means less gas used and a more resilient electricity grid Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dear clean energy industry, this is your moment. Cease your frowning at the roadblocks that have been put in your way. Exit your industry conferences at which you tell each other what you already know. Break the shackles of renewable energy media, where you are preaching to the converted. Stand up. Step out and convince communities, in the mainstream, with an economic argument. âDrill baby drillâ is Donald Trumpâs mantra, but inadvertently, with his ill-considered Iran war, the US president has fractured decades of concerted lobbying, misinformation and disinformation, underpinned by a fortune in funding, to shore up the fossil fuel industry. Clean energy, you have an open lane. Take the gap. Itâs your Steven Bradbury moment. We know that the fossil fuel sector has been astroturfing elections and manipulating information for years, with tactics as wilfully deceptive as those deployed for decades by big tobacco. A recent Senate inquiry has hear
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