David Victor's Essay Quoted in Article about Coal in India
"India's Roaring Economy is Hitched to a Galloping Addiction to Coal"
02/05/2010
Gayathri Vaidyanathan,
The New York Times via ClimateWire
David Victor's essay "Living With Coal," co-authored with Richard K. Morse, was used as a resource in an article focused on India's use of coal. See the news item about the original essay, published in the Boston Review, here.
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"Night falls here by 5 p.m. and people stream into the open-air market to catch the latest political news. They have much to discuss, because elections are currently on in the state of Jharkhand, which is famous for three things: corruption, a home-grown terrorism threat called Naxalism, and this area's economic life, which is marked in every imaginable way by coal.
Coal-fired electricity lights a single incandescent bulb in each shop, and the combined yellow glow gives the market a festive air. Underneath this town, the earth is burning. Suresh Kumar, 50, secretary of a local union, leaves the tea shop where he has his makeshift office and steers his motorbike down a road lined with dark piles of mining debris."
Read the full article here.
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A similar article featuring David Victor's Boston Review essay ran in the EU News Network.
David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, based at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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