Guy Pearse is an Australian author and former Research Fellow at the Global Change Institute at the

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. His first book titled ''High & Dry: John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future'' was published in 2007. In 2009, Pearse published a critique of the Rudd government's response to climate change in

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33: Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom. In 2012, he published ''Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams'' – an analysis of whether the climate-friendly revolution being advertised by large multinationals is real.

Biography

Guy Pearse worked for various Liberal politicians, as a lobbyist for numerous industries, and as a consultant to the

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. He was speechwriter for Australian Prime Minister

John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the ...

's first environment minister, Robert Hill. While studying at the

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in the mid 1990s, Pearse worked on the advance staff of then US Vice President

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. Pearse's doctoral research at the

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focussed on the influence of the carbon lobby on the Howard government. This thesis became the basis for the "

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" episode of ABC's ''

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'' in February 2006.

References

External links

Guy Pearse's site with info on
''High & Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future'', Penguin (Australia) 2007; and ''Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom'', Black Inc (Australia) 2009.

* ttp://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/200707/s1977550.htm Transcript of Guy Pearse's interview with Lateline Businessbr>Extended interview with Pearse by Richard Fidler
on ABC's The Conversation Hour.
Guy Pearse Interviewed by

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on Triple M's Spoonman Show.
Government's emissions trading plan criticised :
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