The demise of green energy agendas in Sweden and Norway should serve as a word of warning to Australia's net-zero dogmatists, writes Nick Cater.
The green movement could only tolerate the renewable industry's environmental indiscretions for so long.
Lithium mining often requires extensive land disturbance, including removing vegetation, topsoil and rock layers. If the green movement were fair dinkum, it would only be a matter of time before it started paying attention and getting its renewable energy mates to clean things up. Similar conflicts between native flora and fauna and renewable energy mega-projects are coming to a head from Tasmania to Cape York as federal and state governments pursue accelerated targets for decarbonising the electricity grid.
Greta Thunberg and members of Norway's Sami community staged a demonstration in Oslo in March, shutting down parts of the government to protest"green colonialism". Some voices, such as Frederic Hauge, the founder of Norwegian environmental group Bellona, argue that sacrifices must be made to nature to combat climate change effectively.
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