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Chris Bowen, renewable fundamentalist

You don't need physics when you have faith

14 July 2023

5:30 AM

14 July 2023

5:30 AM

If climate change is the new official religion, our Energy Minister is a member of a strange puritanical sect that eschews modern technology in its quest for redemption.

Chris Bowen is under the spell of renewable energy fundamentalism, driven by a supernatural conviction in the power of wind and solar.

Renewable fundamentalism rejects the science that has convinced the rest of the world to embrace nuclear energy.

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