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May 10, 2022
Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis
Originally posted in Scientific American, May 10, 2022. We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without…
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Originally posted in Scientific American, May 10, 2022. We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without…
More than a billion people worldwide live without access to basic electricity: One in every six people on Earth doesn’t have enough energy at home for indoor lighting or even to charge a mobile phone. But as appalling as that figure is, it has misled policy-makers, nonprofits, and funders about the true extent of global energy poverty.