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"A funny thing happened on the way to the global energy markets last month.
Even as Donald Trump made threats of war crimes and genocide, and the wiping
out of a whole civilisation, and caused oil and gas prices to surge across the
globe, the far right lobby and the outrage industry in Australia barely
blinked.
Instead, it became obsessed with something and someone entirely different –
Chris Bowen, Australia’s federal minister for climate and energy.
Bowen has been a key target of the far right and the enablers of the fossil
fuel lobby in Australia since he took the job in 2022, and he was central to
setting Australia’s ambitious renewable energy target of 82 per cent by 2030,
and ramping up of its climate goals.
For that, he has been awarded the alliterative moniker “blackout Bowen” – even
though his critics would struggle to nominate a single outage that he could
possibly be associated with.
Australia’s grid, despite the repeated failures of its ageing coal-fired
generators, has become more, rather than less, reliable even as – or because –
it becomes more renewable.
Bowen’s latest perceived crime is to suggest that more wind and solar, and more
EVs, might be a sensible course of action given the costs of fossil fuels,
their tenuous supply lines and, of course, their damage to the climate and
human health."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
