Fractured: Language, Lies & Energy

Description

Billions of people in developing countries suffer from Energy Poverty (EP: “absence of sufficient choice in accessing adequate, affordable, reliable, high-quality, safe, and environmentally benign energy services to support economic and human development”).

Millions suffer from Extreme Energy Poverty (EEP: access to no more than 30% of “energy services”—the energy “needed to provide cooked food, comfortable temperatures, lighting, drinking water and drainage, essential medical care and basic material for education and communication, while enabling all kinds of devices to be used,” plus “agriculture, trade, manufacturing, industry and mining”).

Take Latin America for example: 29% of Colombians, 32% of Dominicans, 76% of Guatemalans, 98% of Haitians, 72% of Hondurans, 30% of Mexicans, and 65% of Peruvians suffer from EP, and 62% of Colombians, 14% of Dominicans, 62% of Guatemalans, 92% of Haitians, 59% of Hondurans, 17% of Mexicans, and 42% of Peruvians suffer from EEP. The situation in Africa is even worse.

Extreme or not, energy poverty kills. That’s why it’s so urgent to end it. And the quickest, least expensive, most technically sure way to do that is to bring fossil fuels to bear—coal, oil, and natural gas can, not merely for a family here or a family there but for a society numbering in the hundreds of thousands to the hundreds of millions, provide all these energy services so vital to human life and thriving faster, cheaper, and more easily than any other sources, particularly solar and wind, the darlings of the Green, climate-alarmist movement. Fractured: Language, Lies & Energy shows the huge benefits from fossil fuels and exposes the lies that make many people think they bring more harm than good.