SA's electricity system facing collapse - engineer

[Currantly]

The coal industry is holding South Africa to ransom and preventing it from moving to a low carbon economy, say climate change experts.

And government is using the trade unions' fear of losing coal jobs as a convenient excuse to maintain the status quo of a coal-based economy with high greenhouse gas emissions.

This emerged from a panel discussion of climate change experts who said on Wednesday that Cabinet must scrap its obsolete climate change objectives and "get decisive".

Hilton Trollip, engineer and researcher at UCT's Energy Research Centre, said government's commitments to cutting emissions and tackling climate change were "grossly inadequate".


"If everyone did what South Africa is doing, we would have a climate catastrophe," Trollip said.

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[diabolus]

This seems like clickbait headline and fearmongering, there's absolute nothing in this article about any "collapse" . The entire article is about renewable energy / climate change and how SA should move off coal, which we all know already.

 

[Gordon_R]

I read the article, but it seems to be a mishmash of fact and opinions put forward at a conference, not a coherent narrative.