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The rise, fall and cost of coal

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Ajit Niranjan
January 25, 2022

Coal powered the industrial revolution, which led to unprecedented global prosperity - but it came with a price. These days the most coal is burned in Asia. How can the world reduce its dependency on the raw material?

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