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This Giant Gas Exporter Needs to Break Its Addiction
Here’s a swamp to drain: More subsidies for natural gas are not the post-Covid recovery plan that Australia requires.
Australian LNG offloading in Tianjin, China.
Photographer: VCG/Getty
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In folklore, the will-o’-the-wisp is a spirit that lives in marshlands, beckoning night-time travelers with its mysterious light until they stumble in darkness to their demise.
The phenomenon is thought to be caused by igniting swamp methane, so it’s oddly appropriate that one of the world’s largest exporters of such fossil gas seems intent on pursuing that industry to its own destruction.