As an Australian, I have produced this site for other Australians. It is written from an Australian perspective.
The overwhelming majority of scientists is convinced that carbon dioxide, which is produced when fossil fuels are burned, causes climate change. That alone is a good reason to switch to alternatives to burning fossil fuels.
As I write this in 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the worlds oil production flows, is closed. This has given the fossil fuel replacement issue a new urgency, at least as far as oil is concerned which we import.
Ending net deforestation, and ensuring that vegation cleared in an inconvenient location is offset by new vegation elsewhere, is also important. However, I want to focus on renewable energy since our fossil fuel dependence is placing our economy at risk right now.
For a long time, I have advocated for a carbon tax. Relatively recently, in light of technological progress, I have come to the realisation that a carbon price is no longer the best solution. A carbon tax made sense when wholesale replacement of fossil fuels was not yet possible and the emphasis was on conservative use and slowly increasing the share of non-fossil fuel options in new assets. The problem with a carbon tax now is that it means consumers would have to pay it on top of the cost of switching to renewable energy.
While I have resolved that my next car will be an electic car, right now, I personally own and drive a petrol-powered Honda Odyssey that I bought new in 2010. I am fully aware of the prohibitive cost of replacing assets that consume fossil fuels long before the end of their working lives. The emphasis has to be on not acquiring any more assets that require fossil fuels to run, where possible.
And that will be the main thrust of this site:
As a matter of public policy, we should put ourselves into a position where we no longer need to acquire any new assets that require fossil fuels to run. Wherever we achieve this, we should prohibit building and importing such assets.
And while we can't realistically turn around ships with petrol-powered cars and probably also can't reject cars and other assets that are already in the process of being built to Australian specifications, it should not take multiple years to make this transition, after non-fossil fuel options are viable.
I produced a site on climate change previously. I last updated most pages in 2019 with some updates into 2021. I referenced oil wars back then: "We can expect that once oil will no longer be an expensive commodity, there will be less wars fought over it, if any. And even if there are still wars over oil, if Australia is not importing oil, Australia also doesn't have to get involved in those wars." I knew we had a problem. I just didn't know how bad it would get.