Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Export coal to China? Klare on Big Carbon's Tobacco-Like Strategy to Ship Pollution Overseas

More on the topic of why companies like Peabody coal are doubling down on labor exploitation in the United States, while turning their sights on places like China, where they hope to export publicly subsidized American coal – to return to us cheap manufactures and a hefty dose of global warming and trans-oceanic pollution....read on.

Let Them Eat Carbon 
Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits 

Michael Klare

"The fossil fuel companies -- producers of oil, coal, and natural gas -- are similarly expanding their operations in low- and middle-income countries where ensuring the growth of energy supplies is considered more critical than preventing climate catastrophe."

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