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Hey Dynamos! I'm Nicholas Carlson, CEO and founder of video network Dynamo and Editor in Chief of Business Explains the World®. BETW is Dynamo's first and flagship show, built on the belief that business explains everything around us. We ask big, surprising questions about how things work — and then go out into the world to find the people who can help us answer them. The answers should leave you inspired, motivated, and fired-up to shape the world around you.
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Coal built the modern world, but now it’s destroying it. Even so, we’re using more coal now than ever. Why? In this episode of Business Explains the World: we go to India, put a giant block of coal in Central Park, and host Dakota Deady explores the history of coal use to find out why we can’t seem to quit it. See behind-the-scenes insights and clips on our Substack: https://dynamoinyourinbox.substack.com/ Archival footage from: AP, Getty, Storyblocks 0:00 Coal is shrinking in the West, but growing worldwide 1:20 Coal built modern life 1:52 Coal’s first job: heat 3:15 What coal actually is 4:26 Why coal is a super-fuel 4:54 When Britain ran on coal 6:47 When America joined the coal boom 7:33 How coal powered electricity 8:50 The human cost of coal 10:27 Find more of our stories on Substack! 10:37 Oil and gas start replacing coal 11:29 Coal comes roaring back 12:00 Why China and India still need it 13:30 Inside India’s coal economy 15:20 India needs reliability + energy security 17:37 We outsourced coal through supply chains 18:53 The pivot: renewables are rising anyway 19:13 Can we actually quit coal?
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