{"id":277751,"date":"2025-11-11T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:51:21","slug":"our-renewable-energy-focus-has-gone-badly-off-course-and-we-need-to-consider-the-nuclear-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277751\/","title":{"rendered":"our renewable energy focus has gone badly off course, and we need to consider the nuclear option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I was a passionate and vocal supporter of Australia\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/coalition-s-marriage-of-convenience-hits-the-rocks-over-net-zero-20251110-p5n92f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> net zero<\/a> commitment. As the leader of an environmental organisation, I championed the target from boardrooms to parliament, persuading conservative and progressive politicians that it wasn\u2019t just the right thing to do for the planet, it was also smart economics. Net zero seemed like a rallying point for innovation, national resilience and environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n<p>But today I must say something I never imagined: net zero in Australia has gone badly off course. Not because the ambition was wrong, but because the road we chose to get there was built on fantasy, not facts.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, I was a passionate and vocal supporter of Australia\u2019s net zero commitment. As the leader of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-277751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}