India has a huge energy problem that we have been covering over the months - basically a severe shortage of electricity, most produced from coal to fuel industry.  Greenhouse gasses and GDP are directly linked - this is the predicament of collapse.  There is insufficient energy to fuel industry and the more successful the Indians are at extracting coal the closer we come to climate disaster.


You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet.
          

India's coal rush

The country's dependence on coal is leaving a dirty trail of violence, landlessness and poverty.

al-Jazeera

India is hungry for energy. Over 173 power plants, all of them coal-fired, will be built to power the nation's high-tech industries and booming cities.

This is accelerating an ongoing “coal rush” which has put our dirtiest fossil fuel at the heart of India’s breakneck growth, and could soon make a single state, Andhra Pradesh, one of the world’s top 20 carbon emitters.

On 101 East, filmmaker Orlando de Guzman takes a dark journey through the coal belt of Jharkhand and West Bengal, to look at the winners and losers of this booming industry.