poverty energy poverty is a lack of

access to clean renewable and save

energy
especially electricity so electricity is
a major resource that we use every day
where it's in our homes through our
phones
there are toasters even a simple light
bulb or even like a stove in your
kitchen electricity is very important to
our society unfortunately many people
don't have that very access to
electricity so you can see a map of the
global energy poverty throughout the
world so you can see that India has one
of the biggest populations that lack
eating and access to electrical grids so
there's about eight hundred thirty six
million people just in India who don't
have any access to electricity and are
practically living in the darkness
now next Africa and sub-saharan Africa I
won't have one of the biggest
populations I don't have any access all
right so let me show you some quick
facts about the situation currently so
seventeen percent of the global
population it's not connected to the
electrical grid at all seven out of ten
people in sub-saharan Africa do not have
any access to lighting so they're living
practically in the darkness every day
and thirty percent of health facilities
in Africa as well as more than 30
percent of primary schools in Africa
don't have any electricity to work with
so students have to work maybe with
kerosene lamps they have to work
pressing in the dark and have to do to
homework in the dark as well so the
major reasons for this current situation
that's occurring especially in
sub-saharan Africa in South America is
that there's a lack of financial
resources so many of these nations are
underdeveloped they don't have to
monetary funds to even support a
extensive infrastructure an electrical
grid now there are also geographical
barriers so many of these countries
don't even have a location that would be
suitable for any electric grid so let's
say like a mountainous region you're in
the middle of the mountains and the
nation can't connect even to the logical
grid and lastly there's a lack of
extensive infrastructure with
the Monetary Fund's to support even a
lecture grid and without infrastructure
he can't have any electricity so there
are several alternatives that many of
these people use to just support them
with the cooking and heating maybe
lighting that they even need so in a
first picture you can see actually
occurs in lamb so many of these
individuals use very expensive kerosene
lamps to provide the lighting that they
need at night then there's all the
simple candles and open fires but each
of these has their own range of
drawbacks so first of all there's
increased pollution causing from like
open fires many of these individuals
have to walk like two four ten to 20
miles even to get a piece of wood and
many of these pieces of wood come from
forests right so they have to cut down
for us to support this consumption so
that increases the use of black carbon
methane co2 these are just adding not
only affecting their society but us
through global warming as well then
there's also deforestation as I said
they're cutting down trees just to
support those open fires and as the
results through deforestation errs also
love soil erosion lastly in the most
important issue is health risks so some
quick facts of 50 percent of pneumonia
deaths due to pneumonia are actually
caused by air pollutants so many of
these children under five they're just
practically dying from these air
pollutants cost and created by these
kerosene lamps so while you're actually
using to do their homework do the same
time affecting their own health 3.8
million premature deaths from
non-communicable diseases are actually
caused from contact with these air
pollutants it's like when you're using
open fires especially they're using it
indoors so imagine there's so much soot
in the air that they're I mean it's just
dangerous for the lungs and for their
own immune system so this might not only
affect their health in general but also
has the lasting influence of MIT on many
of these countries so let's imagine
there's a guy who wants to start a
business let's say he doesn't even have
to monetary funds to support any
electricity that you need so let's say
he has some connection to electrical
grid he doesn't have even half the funds
to support such an extent such an
expensive electricity in general and as
a result when there's no new businesses
there's no new jobs and that just goes
into a cycle of unemployment and lowest
living standards as well so this is a
major issue that's impacting a lot of
people many people have tried to find
some