Climate Connections is a series now on National Public Radio done in cooperation with National Geographic: “How are we shaping the climate. How is climate shaping us.”
I enjoyed this story on a mining adviser, environmentalist and government advisor. (Also a friend of mine!)
Another considers “carbon charge” on Chinese imports at the border. Also on China, a story on the impact of coal in China. 5,000,000 miners! According to the BBC, anywhere between 5,000 (official) and 20,000 (independent groups) are killed each year. Another BBC story quotes the People’s Daily saying 17 miners die a day. The size and scale put many issues in a different perspective.
As one injured miner explains in the NPR story:
Those rich Chinese in the Eastern Provinces, they pay lots of money for our coal. But they have no idea about the price we pay. Our bitterness is their happiness.
May 15, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I believe the high end estimates on those mining deaths in China. there were weekly news stories about mining disasters all over the non-seaboard areas of the country. and those are the ones that made it past the censors! china is paying a terrible price in many ways for its lightspeed economic growth — health and environment are the top two cited by many China-watchers.
May 16, 2007 at 10:47 am
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May 16, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Smooncakes, you will be my editor on all postings related to China! Someone must edit me.
It is hard to get my head around the scale of mining in China. The NPR stuff is really good. Let me know if you hear reactions from the US of A.
Thanks for sharing about me, Global Lab!