Nonfiction reading response

In the article “Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change” by Gardiner Harris explains how India is mining for more coal which is causing climate change to escalate. The author also explains how if this epidemic escalates how it will affect the people of India and other countries. This author states how the power minister Piyush Goyal is taking care of this problem and how the future will be affected. 

According to the article it says “coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India’s cities, already among the world’s most polluted, even more unlivable”. This quote explains how if India keeps on coal mining, that it will make India more unlivable and escalates climate change. I believe that we shouldn't let India keep on mining because if it’s going to affect the environment of the whole world and make climate change worse, then we should stop it immediately. Another example is what the power minister Piyush Goyal about this subject. He said “India’s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future”. The power minister is explaining how if they stop this coal mining that they cannot grow and should not be stopped because of climate change that could happen. I do not agree with the power minister because he wants to increase the economy of India, but it’s going to affect the environment of the whole world in a bad way.

The author also includes the conditions of India. He writes “Indian cities are already the world’s most polluted, with Delhi’s air almost three times more toxic than Beijing’s by one crucial measure.” I believe if you already as bad conditions as having toxic air, then you shouldn’t have strip mines that coal will affect their environment even more. The article also shows me what the city Dhanbad looks like. “The city of Dhanbad resembles a postapocalyptic movie set, with villages surrounded by barren slag heaps half-obscured by acrid smoke spewing from a century-old fire slowly burning through buried coal seams.” I think that this description of Dhanbad is a little biased because it Is saying that it looks like a post-apocalyptic movie set when it didn’t need to say that.

This I believe needs to be stopped. I think this because the power minister wants to grow the economy of India. But the cost of this is worse because he needs to mine coal which is going to effet the environment and increase climate change. It will also affect India even worse than any other country out there.