Maths is ruining the green energy transition story


Sandy Plunkett
Contributor

For years, climate crisis experts and amateurs alike repeatedly told us to ‘Follow the Science’. Most of us couldn’t do that, even when we tried. But virtually everyone publicly came to believe the climate crisis is real.

Then governments in advanced economies, including Australia, responded with relative unity. They ushered in the new normal of net zero mandates, green energy transition policies, multi-billion-and trillion-dollar subsidies and incentives, and… ever rising energy prices.

We are now well into the green energy transition, and energy costs and security have come to centre stage, along with the realisation that the world remains deeply dependent on reliable supplies of fossil fuels.

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