Coal Fired Energy Brings Prosperity to Third World : Enviros Block Success

Again, the environmentalist fascists that demand others live in squalor and poverty while they live the good life just to make sure their personal agenda of saving the planet is followed. That life and limb is lost is of no importance, it's the agenda of power and control that make them feel the need to destroy others so they, while sipping their Latte at Star Bucks, can have good thoughts about their accomplishments.

The progressive socialist Democrats have destroyed more then 6000 jobs in this country for this very reason, demanding the coal industry will destroy the planet. And now they are attacking the 'fracking' process that will create millions of jobs and bring prosperity to this country as destructive.

Developing Countries Need Coal-Fired Power Plants
Source: Bjørn Lomborn, "The Power to Develop," Project Syndicate, December 12, 2013.
December 19, 2013

Coal has lifted 680 million people in China out of poverty over the past 30 years, says Bjørn Lomborn, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.

• Coal provides cheap and reliable power, which leads to development.
• Chinese cities like Beijing have bad smog problems from coal, but the economic tradeoff has been well worth it.
• In 1982, the average Chinese person earned $585 per year.
• In 2012, the average Chinese person earned $7,958 per year.

Even with these benefits, many rich countries do not support the use of coal in poor countries.

• Both the United States and the United Kingdom abstained from the World Bank vote to finance a coal-fired power plant in South Africa in 2010, even though the United States admitted that without a plant, South Africa's "economic recovery will suffer, adversely impacting electrification, job creation and social indicators."
• This year, both countries announced that they would not back international finance for coal-fired power plants in developing nations.

Coal is the cheapest option for poor nations.

• In South Africa, coal costs just $0.09 per kilowatt hour (kWh).
• In Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya, electricity costs from hydropower, gas and oil will likely be between $0.16 and $0.25 per kWh.
• Solar lights, on the other hand, cost $2 per kWh.

For the world's poor, coal-fired electricity is a necessity. Many in developing nations burn dung, cardboard, and twigs indoors to cook and stay warm. This indoor pollution is not only 10 times higher than in the cities of advanced nations, but it is responsible for 3.5 million deaths each year.

Too many people are unwilling to acknowledge the environmental tradeoffs needed to improve the lives of the poor across the world.