Make No Small Plans: Turning On The Lights For 1.4 Billion People

[RobertEarl]

2. That is amazing

1 in 5 people, humans just like any one of us in the developed world still have no electricity. Amazing.

We are so lucky to have been born here. We did not build the plants or the grid. It was here when we got here. 1 in 5 were not so lucky.

One reason i was an active environmentalist - and still dabble - was the realization of the impacts we who are so lucky have made upon the natural world. We did it because we could, because we had so much luck with our easy energy. It behooved me to make sure our impacts were controlled. But i failed.

One simply has to wonder: what if all of 7B us had the same easy energy? Would the natural world be much different? I venture to say that we would have already been 100 years into climate change already.