Relying on fossil fuel projects to help with a COVID-19 recovery is like planning to recover from a heart attack by adopting a deep-fried diet, or treating diabetes with mountains of sugar, writes Dr John Van Der Kallen. Yet as we try and restart the economy, we are seeing the expansion of environment and economy-wrecking fossil fuel projects. For healthy communities, a renewables-led recovery is what this doctor – and everyday Australians, economists, energy experts, scientists and the like -ordered.

Dr John Van Der Kallen is a rheumatologist and the NSW chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia.

Read the full article in the Canberra Times published on 11 May 2020.