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One Billionaire Could Keep Three Countries Hooked on Coal for Decades

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According to Mark Blyth ( Prof. of political economy at Brown ). India is going to continue to build 200 more coal powered plants despite knowing exactly how awful climate change is going to be for India. Pakistan is following similar strategy. The idea is that Europe/US have more to lose due to climate change, so when time comes they can use these coal fired plants as a bargaining chip ("bribe") for technology trans…

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Apparently the profitability of the future Adani mine in Queensland will not be assured [1], however I would guess the coal power plants Adani owns will make up for that.

How can India meet the Paris agreement[2] while letting Adani build new coal power plants?

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-numbers-on-ada...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Paris...

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