China, the World, and Coal.

Since you were little, your parents or guardians have been talking about gas prices. Gas is always getting more expensive, and is one of the more popular forms of energy used today. Less people think about coal versus gasoline, but what’s been happening with coal lately? Well the UN has stated that there is no future in the world’s mixture of energy sources for coal. Many say that this is true, but because they believe that coal will run to a substantially smaller portion, in comparison to the amount of it today. According to the UN, neither of those is correct. China has substantially increased their production of renewable energy sources, especially wind.  The Chinese went from 70 to 200 gigawatts of wind, rivaling 2 times the amount of the entire European Union. Not only has China massively increased their renewable energy, they’re about to limit coal! China is going to ban the sale of coal in 2015. What does this mean? Well Australia has recognized China’s new leaf, and are aware of the fact that in order for anything to change in the world’s system right now, the US and India must be on board with the same ideals of significantly reducing the amount of non-renewable energy used in the world. India is already working on this, and a very large summit is being held, with more than 120 world leaders attending, in order to address just this. The UN has told the coal industry that the world’s coal reserves should be left in the ground to prevent catastrophic global warming. China has taken the largest leap of faith in their industries.

 A report says that AIR POLLUTION ALONE kills 750,000 people in china ANNUALLY. If China is willing to ban their imports, by 50 million tons, there is absolutely no reason that the US can’t do that. China has such a vice grip over this situation, it’s unbelievable. The fact we even need a summit for this is ridiculous. Some say that we will lose a lot of jobs and the economy won’t improve as much as proposed by the complete switch to renewable energy, and to that I say you have valid point. Though you have to realize, that transportation people will only have to relearn the new technology. So therefore they can still keep their jobs. More jobs will be needed for upkeep, and more of our countries money may also be put into the economy to improve it. That is, if our government can think properly. That’s for another time. Although this is an insane concept, for the worlds benefit it’s extremely smart that China has made this leap. We just have to wait and see how it plays out.