2009Sept23: 1.6 billion people in developing countries do not have access to electricity, according to the World Bank’s 2010 development report.
Reference: New York Times http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/bringing-solar-power-to-africas-poor/
Image Description: Slums built on swamp land near a garbage dump in East Cipinang, Jakarta Indonesia. Photo by Jonathan McIntosh, 2004. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jakarta_slumhome_2.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.
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As we move through time past the industrial revolution through to the end of the century responsible for the technology revolution. We may not realize how significant and precarious our current living conditions are placed. People born this century inevitably will have no idea that the society they are born into is living on a knife edge with regards to their basic needs. Electricity, food, shelter, water. One meteorite or solar flare and this could be gone in a flash….but people would still survive without emergency preparedness skills so this where they will suffer. If we start by not taking these things for granted and monitoring our electricity usage to understand what we do and do not need this would be a start. You can see more information under the articles section here http://polarbearplanetenterprises.com/Articles-Info.
We the care takers need to impart information to our younger generations to prepare them and make our planet a better place.
What do u think about that
Sven