Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade

Mongabay
Oct 26, 2017, 2:00 pm105 pts
BHAMO, Myanmar – A trader turns off his truck’s engine at yet another checkpoint and, again, the soldiers ask him for cash. His truck is filled with charcoal from Myanmar, destined for factories in China’s mountainous southwest province of Yunnan. The charcoal will be fed into furnaces to produce silicon…

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