Reality check, Malcolm: you've already lost the war on renewables

For three years in a row, there's been more
investment globally in renewables than
in fossil fuel power stations. 

The war on renewable energy is entering its final, desperate stages. It is inevitable that Australia and the world will soon be entirely powered by the wind, sun, waves and water. The only questions left are whether that will happen in time to prevent the worst impacts of global warming, if coal-mining communities will be supported through the transition, and exactly when the Coalition will crawl out of its ideological bunker and realise the battle is already over.

What makes me so sure that the game is up for fossil fuels? It's not the increasing shrillness of a national Treasurer fondling a lump of coal in our parliament, or the "truth overboard" attempts to blame renewable energy for everything from South Australian blackouts to arrested production at Alcoa's Portland aluminium smelter.

Read Mark Wakeham’s comment in The Sydney Morning Herald - “Reality check, Malcolm: you've already lost the war on renewables.”