"Our civilisation", wrote George Orwell over 70 years ago, "is founded on coal." Unlike Europe's, Asia's still is. In 2010, according to the International Energy Agency (iea), a think tank, coal accounted for just one-fifth of primary energy supply in the oecd countries. But, in the world as a whole, coal account ed for almost half of the increase in energy use from 2000-10.
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