Clean, Renewable Energy is the Dream: Adani Carmichael is the Reality

Dr. Munr Kazmir
5 min readJun 17, 2022

We have met the enemy and he is us.

“Stop Adani” outside Frydenberg’s office. October 3, 2017. Photo by Julian Meehan. Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by-SA.

Oh, you’ve never heard of Adani Carmichael?

No one force on earth stands in the way of a global transition away from fossil fuels more than Adani Carmichael.

Adani Carmichael is wealthy, slick, persuasive; seductive, some might say- impossible to resist.

Adani Carmichael has made the world an offer it can’t refuse. World powers, mainstream newspapers, governing bodies, and environmental protection agencies alike quail at the very thought of Adani Carmichael.

But Adani Carmichael is not a person, it’s not a collection of persons.

It isn’t even a company.

Adani Carmichael is a coal mine.

And it isn’t just any old coal mine. Adani Carmichael is one of the biggest coal mines in the world, but that isn’t even what makes it so special.

Adani Carmichael is one of the biggest coal mines in the world…and it just opened last year. But even that isn’t what sets Adani Carmichael apart.

It isn’t a question of when it opened, but also where.

What poor, emerging, benighted country drew the short straw of doing the world’s dirty work this time?

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