“Australia is sleepwalking into an election that could deliver the most anti-renewable government in Australia’s history,” says John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council.
Tag: disinformation
The Coalition’s nuclear folly
“The Coalition’s promotion of nuclear generation seems to have gained traction, but it’s outrageously incompetent – or deceptive.”
Clean up in the morass of clean energy misinformation
Solar and wind are now the cheapest sources of new electricity, and the fastest growing in history.
Torquay’s residents being taken for fools
FACT CHECK. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is repeating misinformation that benefits the fossil fuel industry, while ignoring the very real climate and economic crises facing Australia.
Sustainability or collision in the AI-powered flood of disinformation
Our guest of The Sustainable Hour is Luke Taylor, director of the National Sustainability Festival.
Beware the gaslight: a voter’s checklist for political manipulation
How to recognise and resist deceptive political tactics – and avoid ‘Trump Australian style’
Climate policy has not failed. It has been defeated
Yet few journalists, public policy actors or researchers have heard of the Atlas Network. Here’s an opportunity to catch up and understand what is actually going on.
Restore a safe climate? First we must restore trust
“The Federal government has been promoting coal, misleading the public on causes of blackouts and electricity rises, and trashing renewable power. They’ve seemingly forgotten all about climate change. Meanwhile extreme weather has played havoc on power infrastructure around the country,
Climate inaction linked to culture of cutting corners
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in.
Let’s meet and greet our local climate sceptics with confidence – and a smile
You can’t judge climate sceptics as if they are all the same. They come in various sizes and shapes, with different motivations, and we need to be able to distinguish sceptics from deniers, trolls from laggards. We have seen their