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How the fossil fuel industry is gaslighting Australia

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Are There Other Beliefs About the Fossil Fuel Industry?

People tend to overestimate the numbers of people who work in the fossil fuel industry. They often put it a kind of nine, ten %, but it's actually about one%. Subsidies, people a that the industry isn't subsidized at all, or royalties and profits of the industry vastly outweigh the subsidies. Some people think that it will just continue to do well, mainly because they think that china and india will continue to want it. People tend to see things like declining coal and gas ibely as an anomaly, rather than as a trend.

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