India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Use by 2040

[TNVOLNAVY]

and China isn’t slowing down either.

As the USA and Europe retreat from prosperity, India seems determined to overtake China, with a 400 million ton boost to coal production in the next two years, and a massive relaxation of environmental rules and other incentives to boost coal mining and industry.

Net Zero? India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Use by 2040

 

[allvol123]

Good for them.

 

[hUTch2002]

and China isn’t slowing down either.

As the USA and Europe retreat from prosperity, India seems determined to overtake China, with a 400 million ton boost to coal production in the next two years, and a massive relaxation of environmental rules and other incentives to boost coal mining and industry.

Net Zero? India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Use by 2040

Planet killers

 

[VolStrom]

Looks good for West Virginia, since the US will have rolling blackouts while we wait for the sun to shine in Minnesota and the wind to blow in South Carolina.

 

[Sandman 423]

 

[NorthDallas40]

Why is anybody shocked by this?

 

[landscapingvol]

and China isn’t slowing down either.

As the USA and Europe retreat from prosperity, India seems determined to overtake China, with a 400 million ton boost to coal production in the next two years, and a massive relaxation of environmental rules and other incentives to boost coal mining and industry.

Net Zero? India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Use by 2040

I am not sure that is a good thing. I don't think there is any debate that burning coal is terrible for the environment. I understand for their economic development it requires cheap sources of energy but I am not sure why would should celebrate it here?

 

[Velo Vol]

So India is aiming to replicate China's air quality?

 

[utvolpj]

Yeah who needs clean air anyways. From pics it will just match their water

 

[midnight orange]

They burn everything they can get their hands on especially when it drops below 100 degrees in Delhi. They burn trash, tires and sewage. Coal is about as clean as it gets in India.

 

[05_never_again]

They burn everything they can get their hands on especially when it drops below 100 degrees in Delhi. They burn trash, tires and sewage. Coal is about as clean as it gets in India.

I was gonna say. That's progress for them.

 

[midnight orange]

I was gonna say. That's progress for them.

It is. It’s a third world country that doesn’t have the luxury of passing “green initiatives” or child labor laws, something lost on white middle class Americans.

 

[AshG]

This is a bad move.

More power means more capacity for call centers. More call centers means more scam and spam calls. Or more unintelligible tech and account support offshoring.

 

[LouderVol]

All the people who roll coal here can go move over there.

 

[05_never_again]

It is. It’s a third world country that doesn’t have the luxury of passing “green initiatives” or child labor laws, something lost on white middle class Americans.

It's new money (or aspirational new money) making their fortune the same way old money did it, and the old money saying "No, not that way" or something similar. A tale as old as time.

 

[VolStrom]

This is a bad move.

More power means more capacity for call centers. More call centers means more scam and spam calls. Or more unintelligible tech and account support offshoring.

If you really want to get under a scammers nails, ask him about his grandmothers thoughts on being a lying scam artist. You can piss them off really easily.

 

[midnight orange]

It's new money (or aspirational new money) making their fortune the same way old money did it, and the old money saying "No, not that way" or something similar. A tale as old as time.

Yep. We were a third world country at the turn of the 20th century (still rich compared to most other countries at that time). We burnt coal and used child labor because people selfishly felt that eating was preferable to starvation at the time. If the government had passed child labor laws at the time they would have been hanging from lampposts, contrary to those who believe the government just outlawed child labor and “it all worked out because it was the right thing to do.”

 

[landscapingvol]

It is. It’s a third world country that doesn’t have the luxury of passing “green initiatives” or child labor laws, something lost on white middle class Americans.

Much of India's issues post colonization are self inflicted, the out of date Caste system impoverished millions of people and still impoverishes millions of people. The white middle class and European colonization have nothing to do with that

 

[landscapingvol]

Yep. We were a third world country at the turn of the 20th century (still rich compared to most other countries at that time). We burnt coal and used child labor because people selfishly felt that eating was preferable to starvation at the time. If the government had passed child labor laws at the time they would have been hanging from lampposts, contrary to those who believe the government just outlawed child labor and “it all worked out because it was the right thing to do.”

We burned coal because oil and natural gas were still yet to be exploited on any large scale especially natural gas. Child labor laws were passed nearly 100 years ago in the US and no, we were not a third World country at the start of the 20th century. That term didn't even exist and the US was well into industrialization.

 

[05_never_again]

Yep. We were a third world country at the turn of the 20th century (still rich compared to most other countries at that time). We burnt coal and used child labor because people selfishly felt that eating was preferable to starvation at the time. If the government had passed child labor laws at the time they would have been hanging from lampposts, contrary to those who believe the government just outlawed child labor and “it all worked out because it was the right thing to do.”

Not 3rd world, but not quite as industrialized as the UK and certainly not a major figure on the world stage yet.

 

[midnight orange]

Much of India's issues post colonization are self inflicted, the out of date Caste system impoverished millions of people and still impoverishes millions of people. The white middle class and European colonization have nothing to do with that

Not a claim I made. In fact India probably gained from British colonization in some respects as much as they lost.

 

[midnight orange]

We burned coal because oil and natural gas were still yet to be exploited on any large scale especially natural gas.

We used the telegram because the iPhone hadn’t been invented.

Child labor laws were passed nearly 100 years ago in the US and no, we were not a third World country at the start of the 20th century.

When? The 1930’s post fact.
Compared to today we were. If you took a time machine to 1900, it probably wouldn’t smell to good.

That term didn't even exist and the US was well into industrialization.

Don’t care when the term was invented, it’s what we use today.

India and China are industrializing. That’s why they’re using the cheapest forms of energy.

 

[midnight orange]

Not 3rd world, but not quite as industrialized as the UK and certainly not a major figure on the world stage yet.

I’m comparing it to today because going from 3rd world to 1st world is a process and most countries don’t make it from 3rd to 1st.

 

[85SugarVol]

Me thinks some in here don’t know what 1st/2nd/3rd World Country actually means.

Here’s a hint -

 

[landscapingvol]

We used the telegram because the iPhone hadn’t been invented.



When? The 1930’s post fact.
Compared to today we were. If you took a time machine to 1900, it probably wouldn’t smell to good.



Don’t care when the term was invented, it’s what we use today.

India and China are industrializing. That’s why they’re using the cheapest forms of energy.

It's 2022, 86 years is nearly 100 years. The iphone didn't exist but nuclear, natural gas, and hydroelectricity do exist as opposed to coal fired plants. China began industrializing 60 years ago. They are using cheap forms of energy because they do not care about the impact on the environment and they want to keep manufacturing costs low. India has a problem that it cannot overcome without massive changes. Their population is too large for their nation's size and resources. No amount of cheap energy or modernizing will overcome that issue