Of course it does. Coal is the most obedient of servants—stable, simple, endlessly reliable. No tanks, no cavernous storage facilities, no fragile high-pressure systems, no elaborate spill defenses. Just heap it up, leave it be, and it will wait patiently until summoned to deliver heat and power. Day or night, season after season, it does exactly as asked—and it does so cheaply enough to keep the wounded colossus of China staggering forward.
And make no mistake: China will need more, not less. The fever won’t break, and the activists who wag their fingers elsewhere rarely last long under Beijing’s gaze. Greta and her acolytes know this. They give China a wide berth, preferring stages where the spotlight is bright but the danger is minimal—Israel, for instance. There they can preen without fear of disappearing into a re-education camp.
Meanwhile, half the world’s coal vanishes into China’s furnaces. Half. Every other nation combined burns less than that one empire. If the activists were serious, that would be the dragon they’d challenge. But no—they’d rather tilt at safer windmills, where the drama is plentiful and the consequences few. Easier to play Cassandra where the crowds clap politely than to stand against the inferno where it truly rages.
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