Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Coal is mired in deep social inequities, and the need of the hour is a decentralised, democratically-owned renewable energy deployment to fight energy poverty, writes Chaitanya Kumar.
Coal does not alleviate poverty, it aggravates it. We of course rarely ask the poor what poverty means to them and what it will take to move them out of it. But Brendon Pearson, the chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, says we need coal-fired power to pull the world's poor out of energy poverty....