Telegraph: It has just been announced that
China has become the world's largest consumer of
energy, overtaking the US in absolute hunger for oil, burnt coal, combusted gas and split atoms, if not in consumption per person. No wonder the Middle Kingdom is gobbling up resources in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and wherever it can find them -- its energy needs have already risen more than four times since 1978 and it still derives 70 per cent of its energy from coal. China is often cast as the ...
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