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Rich countries’ climate policies are colonialism in green — Vijaya Ramachandran

In Pursuit of Development

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Is There a Coal Boom in Africa?

There's no coal boom in africa. The only country that has a coal production to a significant degree is south africa. Three point eight million people a year die prematurely from the effects of indoor air pollution caused by burning wood, charcoal, animal dung or coal indoors. And i think these efforts to ban the financing of natural gas projects in africa are largely to africans from a poverty perspective and from a health perspective.

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