Consider Pakistan and South Africa, where a dearth of generating capacity means recurrent blackouts that wreak havoc on businesses and cost jobs. Yet the funding of new coal-fired power plants in both countries has been widely opposed by well-meaning Westerners and governments.
以南非和巴基斯坦为例，那里发电量不足导致企业频繁停电，同时也对就业机会产生了很大影响。但这两个国家为新建燃煤电厂的筹资却遭到了用心良苦的西方民众和政府的普遍抵制。相反，他们提议用可再生能源来解决能源短缺问题。