The future is not warm, its Coal: reality test

Putting Zero Emissions to a reality test: Seems that despite best intentions, coal power plants are on the rise.

Animation compiled from CarbonBrief.org

While affluent countries are closing coal power plants, developing countries are building more of them, and planning to continue doing so in the next decades. They will still be around decades from now.

Developing countries need to catch up with affluent countries by providing quality of living for their citizens, with energy production being a fundamental ingredient. We can not deprive them of this basic necessity. They are building lots of new coal plants- the most carbon intensive and unhealthy source of energy, already the biggest single contributor to carbon emission. The reason is not that they don't care, but it's the reasonable economic choice for them to make.

Until we have a stand in, grid scale, economical replacement for the coal power plant in developing countries, we need to start thinking about global incentives if we want to change this trajectory.

From: Our World in Data link

Plant closures in Europe and US are dwarfed by increase in China and India. Soon to join: Southeast Asia, Africa.

Per capita total electricity generation. Developing countries need to close the gap. From: Our World in Data (link)