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Chris Wright: “Global life expectancy at birth is 73 years.”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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🇺🇸 Conference with Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Published | Video Starts at 08:29

Hydrocarbons transformed global life expectancy from 30 years at all around the planet throughout all of human history until about two years ago to today. Global life expectancy at birth is 73 years. That is energy. That is the difference there. And of course, when you have a better energized society, you can have a better social structure as well as there's longer … (08:29–08:33)

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