With that kind of enthusiasm, it’s no wonder that the book – subtitled How We Build a Better Future – is a sensation among progressives in the US and around the world. The green dilemmaAustralia is not the US by any means, so the blockages identified in Abundance are not as daunting. And when it comes to the clean energy transition, the bipartisan divide on green energy here is wider than in almost every other country. The Edelman global trust barometer report for 2024 found that 28% of Australians classified as on the “right” reject green energy technology, compared with 7% on the left. One thing’s for certain: it will take more than an abundance of rhetoric to get there.