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Coronavirus, climate and China: can we afford to fight three wars at once?

23 July 2020

11:56 AM

23 July 2020

11:56 AM

Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending climate war on carbon fuels while waging a lockdown war on the elusive COVID-19 virus and also provoking a trade war with China, our biggest trading partner.

We cannot afford three hopeless and costly wars at once. One would be too many.

The political war on carbon fuels has damaged the environment with forests of “green” power poles, flats of ground-sterilising solar panels, hills of bird-slicing wind turbines plus spider-webs of new power lines and roads.

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