FILE -- Coal awaiting export at the Abbot Point coal terminal, in Queensland, Australia, July 5, 2017. Australia has approved the Adani Group's Carmichael coal mine project, which would export through this port. The vast project had been tied up in court challenges and protests by environmentalists since it was first proposed eight years ago. (David Maurice Smith/The New York Times)

The World's Most Insane Energy Project Moves Ahead

Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization. Jeff Goodell reports.

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