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And massive corruption, criminal gangs ready to kill anyone who tries to stop the looting. i was shaking badly. i was literally lying like this and i started gasping for air. a mixture of cyanide and sodium arsenite. today, south africa still gets almost all its power from burning coal. it's a lethal addiction. it's killing us. this coal is killing us. the answer, to many, is a green revolution. but can western money and pressure help south africa embrace renewable energy? or is the rot here simply too deep? it's very depressing. it's very concerning. our country is in a serious dark place.

So, the system is, ithink, rotten to the core. and dangerous? yeah, absolutely. but stolen coal is only part of a much bigger problem. spread across this province are a dozen coal—fired power plants. they look like ships that have run aground. we're now driving to one named tutuka. a huge plant. but today, it's barely functioning, brought to its knees by years of mismanagement, looting and sabotage — like this fire caught on camera at a nearby plant. the sort of scams that have been going on at power stations like this one range from pretty basic fraud — for instance, inflating the price...

Needed to produce. that has a direct impact on poor people who lose jobs, who cannot work, who cannot earn money. and poverty kills. poverty leads to young people not getting the education they deserve and so forth and so forth. at that level, i think this is treason. why treason? well, that's what we're going to try to find out. we're just heading out ofjohannesburg now and almost immediately, we are in coal country. you can see the coal—fired power stations on the horizon and you can smell the coal, too. now, in theory, this huge industry is supposed to be quietly transitioning to renewabl...

Many people will lose theirjob. they'll lose their job if the coal was closed down, the coal mining stopped? we'd lose ourjob. and then, there's the politics. plenty of seniorfigures here are sceptical, to put it mildly, about the very idea of abandoning coal. you've been described as a coal fundamentalist, as a bit of a dinosaur, somebody who's obsessed with coal. yes, they call me all sorts of things. �*coal fundamentalist�* and �*fossil fuel dinosaur�*. do you recognise that? i take those as prestigious statements. it�*s a compliment. yeah. those are prestigious titles for me. do ...

Back and help the people of georgia and benefit georgia. >> walker's campaign says they are spending seven figures to spend the ad in hopes to oust raphael warnock. president biden just announcing $20 billion to weekend indonesia off coal. >> president biden: we hope to mobilize $20 billion to support indonesia efforts to reduce emission and expand renewable energy and support workers most affected by the transition away from goal. >> carley: special forces veteran jim hansen joins us now, we haven't gotten the full details on the package, safe to say a large portion of $20 billion will be u.s...