The Chinese will have to wait a little longer before seeing
"the blue sky, the green mountains and the clear water"
that Xi Jinping has promised them.
Never has their country so infected the atmosphere to ensure its energy production.
While waiting to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, as it has committed to, China is reopening coal-fired power stations, the most polluting fossil material possible, for which it provides half of the world's consumption.
Elsewhere in Asia, India and Europe, coal is also finding a second life thanks to the economic recovery.
Most of these countries - this is the paradox - have ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
But things are less binary than our high priests of ecology think.
The great immediate switch that they demand towards renewable energies does not hold up in the face of the return of growth and the massive electrification of the economy (which would have bet on a disappearance
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