Reducing poverty can actually lower energy demand, finds research:
[...] We found that households that do have access to clean fuels, safe water, basic education and adequate food—that is, those not in extreme poverty—can use as little as half the energy of the national average in their country.
This is important, as it goes directly against the argument that more resources and energy will be needed for people in the global south to escape extreme poverty. The biggest factor is the switch from traditional cooking fuels, like firewood or charcoal, to more efficient (and less polluting) electricity and gas.
In Zambia, Nepal and Vietnam, modern energy resources are extremely unfairly distributed—more so than income, general spending, or even spending on leisure. As a consequence, poorer households use more dirty energy than richer households, with ensuing health and gender impacts. Cooking with inefficient fuels consumes a lot of energy, and even more when water needs to be boiled before drinking.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Monday June 07 2021, @12:32PM (3 children)
I bet my ideas here are more fabulous than Azuma's! I don't view suffering as the avenue to learning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @11:04PM
lol @ shallow
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 10 2021, @11:36PM (1 child)
Once again, you deliberately fail to understand me: suffering *can* be *one of the avenues* to learning. In most cases it's not necessary.
In the case of anyone with the kind of sociopathic attitude you have? It's very likely the only avenue. Your kind only learns why something is a problem after experiencing it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Saturday June 12 2021, @12:51AM
The other avenue is just asserting things.
Case in point.
I think your post demonstrates the ongoing disconnect from reality you and others have. Build up an elaborate, delusional narrative and fantasize about what's going to happen to people who won't buy into your narrative. All I can say is that I have suffered in the past and I will suffer in the future, but none of that suffering will teach me your falsehoods. Your narrative is irrelevant.