Why it's hard for India to quit coal

Nov 01, 2021, 02:39PM ISTSource: AP

Every day, Raju gets on his bicycle and unwillingly pedals the world a tiny bit closer to climate catastrophe. Every day, he pushes his bicycle carrying sacks of coal, pilfered from mines to sell to traders for $2. Thousands of others do the same. This has been Raju's life since he arrived in Dhanbad, an eastern Indian city in Jharkhand state in 2016; annual floods in his home region have decimated traditional farm jobs. Coal is all he has.

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