While fossil fuels—coal, oil, gas—still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.

虽然化石燃料——煤炭、石油、天然气——仍占世界能源供应的大约85%，但比以往任何时候都更清楚的是，未来属于可再生能源，如风能和太阳能。

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Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

可再生能源只占全球主要能源消耗的一小部分，化石能源仍然占主导地位——煤炭和石油各占30%，天然气占25%。

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People use fossil fuels like coal and oil.

人们使用煤和石油之类的化石燃料。

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Many so-called greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, come from burning fossil fuel such as oil or coal.

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That estimate does not include all manner of subsidies doled out to the fossil-fuel industry, ranging from cheap access to oil on government land to the ongoing American military presence in the Middle East.

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Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

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