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And India, China, and South Korea are rapidly shifting their investments away from coal, and toward renewable-energy sources.
Just as Chinese companies are now training US
coal
workers to build wind farms, the rest of the world will continue to work together, and build the markets and workforce of the future.
Both depend on imported oil for transport and on domestic
coal
for power generation.
Current reliance on coal, natural gas, and petroleum, without regard for CO2 emissions, is now simply too dangerous, because it is leading to climate changes that will spread diseases, destroy crops, produce more droughts and floods, and perhaps dramatically raise sea levels, thereby inundating coastal regions.
Finally, it requires a technological and politico-economic breakthrough in favor of renewable energy, rather than a return to nuclear power or
coal.
Above all, accept no limitations on
coal
production and hold the oil industry’s interests close to your heart at all times.
Still, the world has a long way to go, as its dependence on
coal
remains high.
The Financial Times reports that peak demand for
coal
in India will come in about ten years, with modest growth between now and then.
Arguably, the biggest economic impact of Britain’s
coal
industry in the late seventeenth century was that it encouraged the development of the steam engine as a way to pump water out of mines.
But the steam engine went on to revolutionize manufacturing and transportation, changing world history and Britain’s place in it – and increasing the usefulness to Britain of having
coal
in the first place.
Most existing
coal
and gas suppliers cost about half or less than wind and could run for decades; instead, we half-close them to accommodate wind.
Significant wind and solar usage reduces the number of hours gas and
coal
generation operates; with large fixed costs, this makes every kWh more expensive.
One area that presents an opportunity for cooperation is energy policy and climate change, because the two countries’ account for more than 50% of total
coal
consumption, while their combined share of both global greenhouse-gas emissions and the world economy is 40%.
The Chinese are testing on a grand scale novel technologies in
coal
conversion, solar, wind, and carbon sequestration.
Of course, fossil fuels, mainly
coal
and natural gas, remain important, but their extraction and use is tied to groundwater pollution and carbon-dioxide emissions, especially in North America and China.
The resolution bans North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore, and seafood products, which together account for one third of the country’s already meager annual export revenue of $3 billion.
China’s suspension of North Korean
coal
imports alone – part of its obligations under the Security Council resolution – will reduce the North’s export earnings by an estimated $400 million this year (while also costing China a pretty penny).
To be sure, there are not as many farmers today as in past decades or centuries;Lancashire’s cotton mills, Pittsburgh’s steel plants, and Duisburg’s
coal
mines have closed; and there are far fewer workers in Northern Sweden’s vast forests.
Erecting trade barriers, engaging in digital mercantilism, and generally undermining the liberal world order will severely harm the extreme poor in Africa and other underdeveloped regions, while doing nothing to help
coal
miners in West Virginia.
Solar now costs less than
coal
in many countries, because initial public subsidization unleashed a self-reinforcing cycle of increasing scale, continuous learning, and declining cost.
Although he doesn’t tell us what the second or third action is, he has turned up in a British court to defend six activists who damaged a
coal
power station.
He argues that we need “more people chaining themselves to
coal
plants,” a point repeated by Gore.
CO2 emissions result from other, generally beneficial acts, such as burning
coal
to keep warm, burning kerosene to cook, or burning gas to transport people.
With official growth data usually aligning a little too closely with government targets to be credible, skeptics are turning to other, more tangible measures of economic conditions, pointing out that energy consumption, freight railway traffic, and output of industrial products like coal, steel, and cement has slowed sharply.
At first, prospects looked bleak, as leaders became distracted by peripheral dramas, such as Poland’s promotion of
coal
and a Saudi-US-Russian-Kuwaiti effort to block a key scientific report.
The key to this process, according to Cambridge University’s Tony Wrigley, the great historian of the era, was the replacement of human- and animal-driven mechanical energy by more productive forms, such as
coal
and other fossil fuels.
At first, many auxiliary tasks – including mining the coal, or creating intermediate products in workshops – still required enormous physical exertion.
By the late twentieth century, farmers sat on tractors, and even
coal
mining had become largely mechanized.
As a result, China’s economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as
coal
and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
China’s technological capacities in this sector lag behind even other developing nations such as India and Pakistan, and its reliance on
coal
is one of the greatest threats to the global climate.
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