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Old king coal煤老大Asian growth will remain fuelled by coal, which is worrying for the planet亚洲的经济增长仍然依靠燃煤助力，这让全世界惴惴不安。“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 accounted for almost half of the increase in energy use from 2000-10. Coal, says Edward Cunningham of Boston University,is experiencing an “historically incredible” resurgence, and may even overtake oil as a fuel by 2025. There is plenty of it and, compared with rival fuels, it is cheap. And often dirty.70年前乔治奥威尔说过，“我们的文明建立在煤炭基础之上”。70年过去了，欧洲的文明已经不再依赖煤炭，而亚洲仍然依赖。智库国际能源机构2010年的研究表明，在经济合作及发展组织国家中，煤炭占据了主要能源供应的20%。不过，从全世界范围来看，自2000年十月以来，煤炭消耗对能源使用增长的贡献将近一半。来自波士顿大学爱德华卡宁汉表示，煤炭使用正处于‘难以置信的，历史性的’复兴阶段，到2025年，煤炭消耗将超过原油。与石油这种替代物相比，煤炭价格便宜量又足。但是煤炭产生的污染也大。Asia has been responsible for over two-thirds of the growth in global energy demand over the past two decades. As, above all, China and India race towards prosperity, they will burn coal in huge volumes. The resulting emissions of carbon dioxide will be among the biggest hurdles in the way of a global agreement on limiting climate change.在过去20年中，全球能源需求增长有三分之二的是由亚洲拉动的。首当其冲的是中国和印度。随着中印两国迅速走向繁荣，他们将大量地燃耗煤炭。由此带来的二氧化碳排放问题将成为阻碍达成全球性协议，以限制气候变化的最大障碍。China leads the world in coal production and consumption. It mines over 3 billion tonnes of coal a year, three times more than the next-biggest producer (America), and yet last year overtook Japan to become the world’s biggest coal importer. Over four-fifths of China’s electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Burning coal is a big cause of the severe air pollution afflicting parts of China, and, through waste from coal-washing and underground leakage, of contaminated water and degraded soil. A is a big cause of B and of C….中国在煤炭生产方面和在煤炭消耗方面都位居世界第一。中国每年开采超过30亿吨的煤，超过第二大产