China chokes on a coal-fired boom
The Sunday Times in the UK is reporting China chokes on a coal-fired boom.
A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century.
Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that cause cancer and diseases of the heart and lung.
Nonetheless, the Chinese plan to build no fewer than 500 new coal-fired power stations, adding to some 2,000, most of them unmodernised, that spew smoke, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere.
We urgently need to break he link between fossil fuels and energy to really slow down this juggernaut. And we need to be sucking as much of that carbon out of the air again as fast as possible. Responsible countries need to show leadership and rein in their own corruption for the common good. — DS
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