‘We don’t need more science. We need more bulldozers.’
Brennende Kohlelagerstätten in China emittieren pro Jahr bis zu 200 Millionen Tonnen Kohlendioxid (im Vergleich dazu Gesamtemissionen in Deutschland 2006: 878 Millionen Tonnen):
Beginning in 1993, Chinese scientists joined with Dutch and, later, German researchers to map China’s coal fires from satellites and aircraft, leading to the discovery of many new fires. “We know there are thousands, but it is too hard to count,” says Stefan Voigt, a geographer at the GermanAerospaceCenter near Munich. Extinguishing the fires would require heavy equipment to dig them out and smother them with soil—but China is still largely dependent on picks and shovels. “The Chinese recognize the problem,” says Voigt, “but sometimes they’ll say: ‘We don’t need more science. We need more bulldozers.’ ”
Ist noch immer jemand der Meinung, wir sollten knappe Klimaschutz-Ressourcen in Windenergieanlagen investieren?
Via Freakonomics-Blog.
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