I myself have viewed it for decades as the world's largest solvable problem. Two to 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. For people, The 2 billion people, roughly half of them in Africa, half of them spread out in other continents of the world, are still cooking the way all of our ancestors did, using traditional fuels. That's our history. But that was a history of. Of poverty, of poor health, of short lifespans and limited opportunity. (02:27–02:40)
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Asserts that 2 billion people still use traditional fuels for cooking, with half in Africa.
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