Post by Nick Jorss

Job opportunity: Senior Strategist, Asia. Do you enjoy working at the intersection of shadowy billionaire funded financial pressure campaigns and grid-scale magical thinking? Can you say “climate justice” with a straight face while making LNG harder to finance in energy-hungry Asian economies? Then you may be exactly the sort of person The Sunrise Project Inc. is looking for. Sunrise is hiring a Senior Strategist, Asia to help shift finance away from LNG and gas expansion. Translation? After helping turn Australia’s energy debate into a smoking ruin of virtue-strutting, activist finance campaigns and batsh!t crazy grid economics, the model is now coming to an Asian market near you. 💰 You can “Work at the intersection of climate, finance and strategy.” i.e. Where billionaire money meets developing nations’ electricity bills to push them ever higher. 😱 Apply “Finance-sector leverage”, meaning we can’t win the engineering argument, so let’s frighten the bejesus out of the lenders. 🤫 Respect the “Right to privacy of our donors.” Apply Sunlight to everyone except the Sunrise funders. 🤦 Noting that “Energy expertise is optional”. But moral certainty is compulsory. Because moral certainty is now doing the job engineering used to do. You can help make low-cost energy harder to fund, label it a “stranded asset” then say “I told you so” when it becomes harder to supply and more expensive and the economy suffers. Australia has already run this experiment. Here are the results: https://lnkd.in/gJN-Bfqf Because nothing says grassroots quite like A$121.9 million, 263 partner organisations and a global donor network. Nothing says climate justice like making energy harder to finance in countries still trying to industrialise. And nothing says revolution like a FIFO job with generous benefits and ample solidarity and cultural leave allowance. The old Australia exported energy. The new Australia exports people whose job is to stop other countries financing it. That’s progress.