Western policy makers ignore the coal fact while preaching bugs
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Most of the Western energy policy makers and media are studiously avoiding this inconvenient coal fact, while at the same time, encouraging Westerners to eat bugs to ‘save the planet’.
Pretty sure burning coal will have a bigger global impact than eating bugs.
Your mileage may vary.
Unless you drive an EV and there is a power blackout, in which case you get zero mileage.
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“China permitted more coal power plants last year than any time in the last seven years, according to a new report released this week.
● It’s the equivalent of about two new coal power plants per week.
The report by energy data organizations Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds the country quadrupled the amount of new coal power approvals in 2022 compared to 2021.
That’s despite the fact that much of the world is getting off coal, says Flora Champenois, coal research analyst at Global Energy Monitor and one of the co-authors of the report.
“Everybody else is moving away from coal and China seems to be stepping on the gas,” she says.
● “We saw that China has six times as much plants starting construction as the rest of the world *combined*.”