LISTEN: Barbara Freese on PRI's The World
Barbara Freese was a guest on Public Radio International to discuss her book
Coal, A Human History. Listen here:
❝ The British government has announced plans to completely phase out coal by 2025. It’s an astonishing historical shift, considering how coal was the foundation of Britain’s rise to global superpower status in the 18th and 19th centuries.
But Britain has been reducing its reliance on coal at a lightning-fast rate. As recently as five years ago, Britain got 40 percent of its electricity from coal. Last year it was 9 percent. And this summer it went down to 2 percent.
It’s hard to imagine this happening in the United States, in part because of the country's alliance between conservative politicians and coal miners. But coal miners in Britain don’t have the same symbolic weight, explains Barbara Freese, the author of "Coal, A Human History." [PRI.org]
| BARBARA FREESE is an environmental attorney, policy analyst & author of Coal: A Human History. Watch her conversation with Martha Stewart below, and learn more about booking Barbara for your next event today. |
