This book of essays, The Superpower Transformation (2022), elaborates, expands, debates, and raises difficulties associated with Ross Garnaut’s pioneering study, Super-Power: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity, published in 2019 by the same publishers.
Super-Power explained that Australia could play a large, impactful, global role in supplying zero-emissions products. The eight chapters of The Superpower Transformation puts this thesis to the test, including Garnaut’s own contribution, ‘The Bridge to the Superpower’.
Garnaut posits three reasons why Australia needs to act. First, climate change is real and damaging. Second, Australian prosperity can be improved through creative initiatives and investment. Third, mitigation supports Australian security and international relations.
In this book, he says: “Success as the Superpower of the low-carbon world economy can make a large contribution to restoring Australia after the stagnation of the Dog Days and the stress of the pandemic recession.”
Given that“Australia will lose its old exports of coal and gas at a pace determined by global progress towards net zero emissions”
