Smokestacks at an industrial park in Jiexiu, China, Oct. 22, 2021. Burning coal, already the world’s single biggest cause of human-driven climate change, will increase China’s emissions and toxic air pollution.. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
Desperate to meet its electricity needs, China is opening up new coal production exceeding what all of Western Europe mines in a year, at a tremendous cost to the global effort to fight climate change.©2019 New York Times News Service