Fake People, Real Projects Killed: AI Disinformation and the New Clean Energy Bottleneck

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Get in touch - leave me a message Fake people. Fake comments. Real clean energy projects killed. This is what climate delay looks like in the AI era. In this episode of Climate Confident , I’m joined by Leah Qusba , CEO of GoodPower , an organisation working at the intersection of climate tech, culture, policy, and decarbonisation. We explore a hard truth about the energy transition: solar, wind, batteries, and electrification may be ready, but public trust, local permission, and disinformation are now decisive barriers to getting projects built. You’ll hear why Leah believes fossil fuel dependence is becoming harder to defend as “secure energy”, especially when oil and gas volatility keeps spilling into bills, food prices, business costs, and household budgets. We dig into why clean energy should be framed less as sacrifice and more as protection: protection from price shocks, geopolitical risk, climate impacts, and the charming little habit fossil fuels have of making everything more expensive. We also get into GoodPower’s research on what actually changes minds.

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