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Viv Forbes is a geologist , financial analyst and farmer with a degree in Applied Science (geology, physics, chemistry and maths). Since graduation he has studied economics, politics, climatology, soil science, financial analysis, grazing management, hydrology and animal nutrition. He has worked and consultedfor government departments and private companies in metals, oil, gas and coal exploration and development. He has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and was chosen as Friedrich Naumann Foundation's "Author of Freedom" in September 2012. He lives with his wife Judy on their small sheep breeding property at Washpool in Queensland, Australia. He was the founder of the Carbon Sense Coalition and a Founding member of Clexit.
Latest posts by Viv Forbes (see all)
- Power not Poverty - March 17, 2022
- Australia’s Giant Green Gamble on Solar Energy Toys - January 11, 2022
- The Electric Highway – A Fuelish Policy - December 23, 2021
For yonks they waged a war on coal
And painted miners black;
They threw explorers on the dole
And shut the gates outback.
The land was closed to oil and gas
And nukes were always banned;
While wind and sun got all the brass
And uglified the land.
Poles and turbines all in ranks
Sprouted on the hills;
The carbon credits pleased the banks
And households got the bills.
Then all the factories fled offshore
As puny power flickered;
More jobs were lost for evermore
As politicians dickered.
Then one still night the lights went out
And blackouts stalked the land;
The pollies quickly turned about
And Greens were spurned and banned.
