Acclaimed author Tim Winton has used a closing address at the Perth Festival to implore people and governments to wean themselves off a reliance on fossil fuels industries, calling the current approach to climate change a "smouldering dumpster fire of business as usual".
Stella Donnelly and Pond frontman Nick Allbrook were among those to raise their concerns about the environmental impact of the project expected to emit millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas annually. "If we're trying to give ourselves any chance of meeting the climate challenge, the emergency that we're facing, then we've got to extricate ourselves from their influence," he said.
Was TW paid for his speech? Just asking for a friend.
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Thank you Tim :) I've been saying for years, we are Australia, full of sun and wind. We have no need to burn coal. Yes, now, gubby is taking action, we are over 50% renewable. But...it is only greed n apathy stopping the outlawing of non renewable energy :(
Tim Winton also supports large scale refugee immigration on the back of Oz 'prosperity' That prosperity wasn't made by selling dreamcatchers at the local market!
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