To me, the biggest challenge, 2 billion people on the planet cook their daily meals and warm their houses the same way all our ancestors did. Burning wood, dung and agricultural waste indoors. 2 to 3 million easily preventable deaths alone, a quarter of humanity. Women completely not liberated. They're slaves of gathering wood, standing over fires, stoking the fires. If we can get propane, cookstoves and low cost propane to 2 billion people, that's the biggest energy revolution I'm hoping to see before I die. (35:31–35:37)
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Asserts that traditional biomass use leads to 2 to 3 million preventable deaths annually.
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