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Dr Saul Griffith (pictured) the author of "The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future" will speak in Melbourne on Sunday, February 20, at an event that is a part of the "Sustainable Living Festival". He was a guest a few days ago on ABC's "Life Matters". Beyond the fact that he is influential, noisy and a "hawk", Australia's Defence Minister, Peter Dutton, has little direct influence on Australia's climate mitigation moves. However, he does oversee a force that, through its activities, is a major player with regard to Australia's carbon dioxide emissions - the U.S. military is the world's largest single user of fossil fuels and while the Australian military is, by comparison, insignificant, it would be, in parochial terms, a major user. Australian born climate activist, Clover Moore, is featured in Glamour magazine in a story headed: "Gen Z activist Clover Hogan on how we can transform our eco-anxiety into *actually* saving the planet". 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