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Going coal turkey

Wealthy greenies demanding the third world go without coal is immoral and hypocritical

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

Like a latter day Aussie Marie Antoinette, Geoff Cousins, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, wants the poor of India to mind their emissions.

Let them eat renewables! He’s calling for them to abstain from coal and move straight to solar technology so cutting-edge it hasn’t yet made it out of the labs at CSIRO.

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Rebecca Weisser is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to The Spectator Australia

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