“Coal is good for humanity." Speaking at an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank that is skeptical of climate change, the United Kingdom's former environment secretary, Owen Paterson, accused climate-change activists of having “African blood" on their hands.
Uno degli alleati del carbone, il Primo Ministro australiano Tony Abbott, ha infatti detto che “non bisogna demonizzare il carbone”, dato che “è un bene necessario per l’umanità”.