Horrifying - China’s Secret Coal Addiction is Destroying the World

China keeps telling the world that it's the leader in green technology... and the world keeps believing it. The reality is that it just expanded even more usage of coal, and keeps doing it every single day.

China’s Electricity Problem

 

Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China

On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene and now,  amid the Covid crisis, drivers face days of quarantine on the border. Trapped in a hazardous industry, Maikhuu's journey reflects the human and environmental costs of Mongolia’s mining boom

China’s Coal Lie - We Went to China’s Largest Coal Mine

 

COP26: New global climate deal struck in Glasgow

 

A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.

China boosts coal production as world leaders discuss climate crisis

China is also feeling the strain from the global energy crunch: With coal, in particular. China now says it has increased its daily coal production by over one million tons – to keep the lights on and businesses running.

India's coal rush

India is hungry for energy. Over 173 power plants, all of them coal-fired, will be built to power the nation's high-tech industries and booming cities.

This is accelerating an ongoing “coal rush” which has put our dirtiest fossil fuel at the heart of India’s breakneck growth, and could soon make a single state, Andhra Pradesh, one of the world’s top 20 carbon emitters.

But not everyone is convinced that this boom is a blessing. Physicist and businessman, Asoke Agarwal believes that India is heading for disaster:

"It is time that we think of a more austere way of living. That was what India was famous for earlier. Today we have just aped the West. The West has gone at a speed at which they are destroying themselves, and we are following them. So it is high time that we realise that there is something drastically wrong with our economy."