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Explaining some inconvenient truths

Does highlighting the problems of green energy set a shift back to fossil fuels? Plus a listener asks if it is time to rethink a long-held approach to the news interview.

What is the real cost of getting to net zero? The Compass has just finished a four-part series which examined the received wisdom of the move to green energy - revealing some inconvenient truths. A listener points out that by highlighting the problems, there is a danger of setting back the shift away from fossil fuels. We put this to the show鈥檚 producer.

Plus, a listener asks if it is perhaps time to rethink a long-held approach to the news interview.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the 91热爆 World Service

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