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Power in the 21st century- efforts to rein in climate change will upend the geopolitics of energy

Power related words

1. barrel 桶，一桶油
2. crude 原油
3. clean energy 清洁能源
4. decarbonise 脱碳
5. cut greenhouse-gas emissions 减少温室气体排放
6. silicon 硅
7. natrual gas 天然气
8. solar module 光伏模块
9. wind turbine 风力发电机
10. shale oil/gas 页岩油/气
11. fossil-fuel-free renewable energy

Vocabulary:

1. scrape along 勉强维生
2. meomentum 势头 gain momentum 势头加强 lose momentum 势头放缓
3. earmark v 指定用途 money be emarked for something
4. emerging 新兴的，emerging world 新兴市场， emerging countries 新兴国家
5. big power 大国
6. mire n 泥沼； v 陷入泥潭
7. bog n，泥沼； bog sth/ sb down 使某人/物 陷入
8. handout n 政府拨款
9. cronyism n 任人唯亲
10. vie = compete 竞争 vie with sb for sth. vie to do sth
11. little wonder = no wonder 难怪
12. cartel 垄断联盟
13. famine n 饥荒
14. dislocation n 流离失所
15. loom 隐约出现，逼近
16. perlious 危险，比dangerous程度更重
17. destabilize 动摇
18. contemplate v 考虑
19. let alone 更不必说
20. turbulence = chaos ≈ turmoil 动乱

Nice sentence:

1. With interest rates near zero, politics are baking green infrastructure plans.
2. As the public, governments and investors wake up to climate change, the clean-energy industry is gaining momentum.
3. The shift involves big risks. If disorderly, it could add to political and economic instability in petrostates and concentrate control of the green-supply chain in certain countries.
4. China could temporarily gain clout over the global power system because of its dominace in making key components, such as solar modules and wind turbines, and developing new technologies. They also control much of the refining of minerals critical to clean energy.
5. (环境）Today, fossil fuels are the ultimate source of 85% of energy. But this system is dirty. Energy accounts for two thirds of greenhouse-gas emissions; the pollution from burning fossil fuels kills over 4m people a year, mostly in the emerging world's mega-cities.
6. （政治）Oil has also created political instability. For decades petrostates such as Saudi Arabia, with little to develop their economies, have been mired in the politics of handouts and cronyism. Ouside, oil markets are buffeted by an erratic cartel. Concentration of the world's oil reserves makes supply vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. In an effort to ensure secure supplies, the world's big powers have vied to influence these states, not least in the Middle East, where American has roughly 60,000 troops.
7. (环境好处）Most important, decarbonising energy will avoid the chaoes of unchecked climate change, including devastating droughts, famine, floods and mass dislocation.
8. （政治好处）Petrostates will have to attempt to reform themselves and, as their governments start to depend on taxing their own citizens. Consuming countries, which once sought energy security by medding in the politics of the oil producers, will instead look to sensible regulation of their own power industry.
9. As oil demand dwindles, they will face a vicious fight for market share which will be won by the countries with the cheapest and cleanest crude.

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