Better LIving Through Electricity

We cannot address third world poverty without providing sources of power, and for the foreseeable future, that means fossil fuel power. That is necessarily going to require increased greenhouse gases until renewables become cost-effective.  Until then, as this article points  out, Africans will, quite understandably,  burn trees for charcoal as fast as conservation groups can plant them. As the author says,

You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty