Australia’s richest industrialist says fossil fuels are dead

Mining tycoon Twiggy Forrest says green hydrogen is the fuel of the future. It’s time to listen. You know times have changed when a mining magnate — in this case Australia’s iron ore king Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest — is talking up renewable energy. After confessing that his company, Fortescue Metals, generates over two million metric tons of greenhouse gas a year — “more than the emissions of Bhutan” — Forrest told Australian businesses in January that the answer isn’t to stop mining iron ore but to produce green iron ore…