Stop believing in fairy tales: Australia's coal industry doesn't employ many people or pay its fair share of tax | Richard Denniss

The evidence to the contrary comes from the Morrison government's own dataJust as people in the Middle Ages mistakenly believed the sun revolved around the Earth, many modern-day Australians mistakenly believe our economy revolves around the coal industry. Of course, such misunderstandings aren't an inditement of those who have been misled, but those who did the misleading.Galileo was imprisoned for life for the "heresy" of ignoring dogma and relying on empirical evidence. And while those who rely on Australian Bureau of Statistics data to describe the Australian fossil fuel industry aren't jailed (yet), they are certainly ostracised by the inquisitors of climate denial. Continue reading...