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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Why should the developing nations bear the brunt when developed nations have reaped the benefits?
Naresh Chauhan, 50, and his wife Rina Devi, 45, fill sacks with coal in Dhanbad, an eastern Indian city in Jharkhand state. The two have lived in a village at the edge of the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad all their lives. The couple earn $3 a day selling four baskets of scavenged coal to traders.
On average, the typical American uses 12 times more electricity than the typical Indian. There are more than 27 million people in India who do not have electricity at all.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/gallery/2021/11/1/photos-climate-crisis-saved-by-coal-far-from-cop26-another-reality-in-india
[Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]