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Robert Bryce -Electricity Poverty
Geoversiv - Earth Intelligence
English - February 13, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNature Science climate change science sustainability democracy nature natural capital renewable energy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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There are a billion people in the world who use less electricity in a year than an average American refrigerator. There is another billion who have no electricity at all. Robert Bryce is a journalist, film-maker, energy analyst. He is the author of six books and the host of the podcast Power Hungry. His latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and he Wealth of Nations has become the documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains the World. He has documented, first-hand, how the lack of electricity creates poverty, and how women and girls suffer the most from this global inequality.