China To Increase Coal Capacity

As I told the people who interviewed me on yesterday’s “This Green Earth” radio show, “Any energy solution that doesn’t have a positive effect on the emissions being created in China and India isn’t really a solution at all. We either collectively solve this problem or we doom humankind to unthinkable levels of suffering.”  And here’s a bit more urgency associated with the subject:  China’s recent approval of a huge increase in its coal production capacity, despite its already crippling levels of air pollution.