18 July

When I was a kid, nobody talked about energy. When Wang opened in 1957, nobody did either. We just left it to engineers to sort out, the best possible power grid for Australia. And got on with our lives. That’s what’s changed today, that we’re not seeing. There shouldn’t even be debates about energy. The cheapest, most efficient way to provide it has already been worked out, by engineers. So why are we having debates? Mostly it’s social media. These platforms get rich by encouraging people to argue. Also politicians deliberately start fights, to generate votes. Nothing gets peoples’ attention faster than a fight, remember at school?