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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Interview: Professor Andrew Blakers explains, again, how renewable sources can fully decarbonise energy in Australia
Description: "I’ve done the sums. All we need is 1,200 square kilometres. That’s not much. The area devoted to agriculture is about 3,500 times larger at 4.2 million square kilometres. The area of land that would be taken away from agriculture works out at about 45
square metres per person – about the size of a large living room.
"We can ditch fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse emissions with negligible impact on agriculture. And, in many cases, farmers can be paid for hosting renewable energy infrastructure while continuing to run
sheep and cows or grow crops."
So says a Profes...