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From Cro-Magnon to COP: how to stay on the wrong side of history
Chris Bowen is calling the end of fossil fuels. But the record of his ancestors suggests that you should not count them out just yet.
Rowan DeanSatiristThe world sat up and took notice this week as Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen boldly predicted from the glittering corridors of COP28 in the phenomenally wealthy petrostate of Dubai (chief export: fossil fuels) that, “Our future is in clean energy. The age of fossil fuels will end”. But is he correct? In this world exclusive, the Fin’s futures correspondent Dr Rowena-Claire Voyent catalogues the accuracy of Bowen family forecasts going back through the generations.
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