Coal
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There is significant potential domestic demand for
coal
briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.
The demand outlook thus appears favorable for the
coal
industry, creating significant investment opportunities.
Clearly, there are environmental drawbacks from the use of
coal
as an energy resource, and these concerns are far too important to overlook.
The massive reserves notwithstanding,
coal
is still a finite resource.
Fortunately, much greater attention is paid today to mine safety and the management of the by-products of
coal
use.
With acid rain and other public-health hazards linked to
coal
combustion, more technologies are emerging for reducing harmful emissions from power plants.
They must use
coal
to advance their economic development.
This contrasts sharply with the approach of their global peers like Norway’s Norges Bank, which in recent years has fought poorly governed firms and divested from polluting industries like
coal.
It would seek to reduce the cost of electricity from sources that do not emit greenhouse gases below that of
coal
power by 2025.
The Global Apollo Program would double these investments and coordinate the effort to bridge the technological gaps, bringing forward the day when we could eliminate
coal
and other carbon-intensive fuels.
That is how the post-war
Coal
and Steel Community was transformed into the EU – one step at a time, understanding that each step was incomplete and would require further steps in due course.
This, in turn, has encouraged greater reliance on highly polluting
coal
– the worst energy source, from the standpoint of global warming.
In the case of the environment, command-and-control regulation is inefficient, discourages innovation, and can have unintended consequences (like Europe’s growing reliance on coal).
The
coal
industry seems determined to fight for profits at the expense of the global environment.
Perversely, it is furiously attempting to capture the moral high ground by claiming that
coal
is essential to ending energy poverty.
Coal
companies and their allies argue that limiting
coal
production would keep the lights off in rural communities by preventing poor countries from building big, cheap power plants.
“Let's have no demonization of coal," as one ally, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, put it.
Setting aside the deeply offensive character of such efforts to silence its critics, the
coal
industry is posing a false choice: end the use of
coal
or end poverty.
But, though energy is indeed central to efforts to end poverty, one must be clear: at this point in history,
coal
is not good for anyone.
Consider this: for all of the attention the Ebola virus has received in recent months,
coal
is a far deadlier killer.
Beijing's ongoing battle with smog – a problem that has become known as the “airpocalypse" – provides a potent reminder of
coal'
s impact on air quality.
Coal
is also the single largest contributor to climate change, which threatens to put 400 million people in the poorest countries at risk of severe food and water shortages by 2050.
The
coal
industry is seeking to burden developing countries with the same unsustainable growth model that has brought the earth to the brink of climate disaster.
Most people understand that
coal
is a dirty business, one that countries like Australia should abandon for their own economic wellbeing, as well as for the sake of the global climate.
And what they want – unfortunately for the
coal
industry – is clean, affordable energy that powers their present, without costing them their future.
With prices for oil, coal, and gas declining, and the cost of new discoveries rising, much fossil-fuel exploration is commercially unviable.
Yet prices set by the EU’s emissions trading scheme, the largest in the world, are languishing at around $7 a ton – and (subsidized)
coal
is making a comeback.
A German government study has estimated that, between 2010 and 2050, Germany could save more than €700 billion by relying on non-nuclear renewable energy instead of nuclear power or imported fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil.
At the same time, it would be short-sighted to assume that fossil fuels, especially coal, are a profitable and sustainable energy source.
Wind energy is now competitive with conventional power plants, while rising gas and
coal
prices and the steady decline in renewable-energy costs imply that, within a few years, fossil fuels will be even less attractive.
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