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Explainer: The history of coal

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Ajit Niranjan
October 14, 2021

Growth in the West was largely powered by coal. But if we want to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we have to ditch fossil fuels. Asia is now the biggest consumer of coal — how can it quit its new addiction?

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