The Dark Side of China’s War on Pollution
China's campaign against coal leaves its citizens out in the cold. Central authorities obsessed with meeting pollution targets had no idea that their assumptions were based on data that was flawed from the start. And now low-income citizens are freezing to death. Oops!
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We need Captain Planet!
My question is how is this going to affect North Korea? Is China still buying coal from North Korea? Is this going to case the price of coal to drop?
(Spolier) Spandex will be tight...lol
I guess China has not heard about clean coal technology.
I'm feeling torn on this. Because it is so so so wrong to force people to freeze due to a government shortfalling, but such an immediate commitment to cutting down pollution is, while flawed, extremely necessary. I think in the coming years it will be important to appreciate the efforts to implement environmental policy changes, but to remain critical of the toll it's taking on the people.