As the transition to a low-carbon world continues to gather pace, the massive benefits of converting to renewables (wind and solar) are now unequivocal.
Even the few remaining climate-denying knuckleheads, trying desperately to save their bruised rightist egos, are now voices in the wilderness.
The eyes of the world are now focusing on South Australia where their once-maligned – by the federal coalition government – renewable-energy sector has been breaking all records.
South Australia sourced over 100 per cent of the electricity it needed from renewable power (wind, solar) for seven days in December 2021, a record for the state and probably for comparable energy grids around the world.
While Australia often receives international condemnation for its recalcitrant climate change policies, our rapid uptake of renewables is now starting to receive international acclaim.
This has only happened because of ongoing bipartisan political goodwill; when Jay Weatherill’s Labor government lost to Steven Marshall’s Liberal government, Labor’s visionary renewable-energy policy was not only adopted but enthusiastically expanded.
This is what could have happened with Australia’s energy policy had we not been bedevilled with a Neolithic thinking coal-fired coalition government and a present PM who has done nothing, aspires to nothing, apologises for nothing, takes responsibility for nothing, and is nothing.
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