Abundance: the US book is a sensation among our progressive MPs. But can it spur action in Canberra?

One thing's for certain, it will take more than an abundance of rhetoric to get things done

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We should be able to argue that the clean energy future should be fucking awesome."

It's days away from the start of the 48th parliament, and if in Canberra there's one book that you must at least pretend to have read by then, it's Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

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