Published: May 29, 2019
There’s nothing new in conservationists needing to win over working people. The Adani campaign can learn from the proposed Franklin Dam
An energy company seeks to develop an impoverished region.
When ecologists raise concerns about the effects on a natural wonder, state politicians call them middle-class interlopers who care nothing for the rural economy. As environmentalists rally in the big cities, local workers march for their jobs. The conservatives insist the project must go ahead while deep divisions wrack the Labor party.
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