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Robert Bryce -Electricity Poverty

Geoversiv - Earth Intelligence

English - February 13, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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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.