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Review: The Superpower Transformation – edited by Ross Garnaut (La Trobe
University Press).
Ross Garnaut is a big beast in the Australian climate policy world, and a Labor
favourite since his days as economic adviser to Bob Hawke. His 2008
Climate
Change Review shifted the dial on policy, encouraging the Rudd and Gillard
governments to pursue carbon pricing laws. He fell out of favour when the
Coalition, led by Tony Abbott and dominated by climate science deniers,
defeated the Labor government in 2013 on the back of a carbon price scare
campaign.
Now he is back with a follow-up to
Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon
Opportunity (2019), an optimistic vision to turn Australia into “a global
superpower in energy, low-carbon industry and absorption of carbon in the
landscape”.
The Superpower Transformation is promoted as a “practical plan” to put the
vision of
Superpower into effect. Garnaut has been joined by six experts, who
cover various elements of the plan to slash Australia’s emissions to zero and
build a new energy economy that will also materially aid the rest of the world.
Australia, Garnaut argues, is blessed with a superabundance of the five
endowments we and the world need for the zero-carbon energy and industrial
revolution now getting underway."
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
