Greg Boyce, who leads the world’s biggest publicly traded coal company, wants people to focus on the fuel’s virtues, not its warts. His pitch: cheap and abundant coal should be used to drive economic growth and help the world’s impoverished improve their lives. “It’s pretty strange that, globally, not only the UN, but developed country leaders are spending so much time on, quote, climate change,” said Boyce, chief executive officer of Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) “They aren’t focusing on how you eliminate poverty, eliminate energy poverty, and start driving global economic activity.” Boyce is wading into an issue at the very heart of the future of the global economy, at a time when his own company, which exports coal worldwide, hasn’t reported annual profit since 2011. The global debate is marked by dual demands: how to […]