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Title: Access to Energy


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Access to Energy
The foundation of prosperity The essence of
ethics and social responsibility A basic human
right
Atlas Economic Research Foundation Philadelphia
April 25, 2007
2
The Circle of Life
  • Electricity
  • Nutrition
  • Disease Prevention
  • Clean Water

Housing
3
The blessings of energy
Impoverished village, 2000
U.S. city, 2000
U.S. city, 1900
4
Abundant, reliable, affordable electricity
  • Electricity in USA
  • 80 of energy
  • 71 from coal, gas
  • 20 from nuclear
  • 7 hydroelectric
  • lt1 wind, solar

5
Human Life Years in one century
  • 1900 56 billion
  • 2000 429 billion
  • In exchange for 0.7 degrees Celsius ??

6
The Circle of Death
  • Anti-Electricity
  • Anti-Biotechnology
  • Anti-Insecticides
  • Anti-Development

7
Anti-electricity policies KILL
  • Lung infections 4 million dead / year
  • Intestinal disease 6 million dead / yr

8
Access to energy a basic human right
  • We must help poor people get abundant, reliable,
    affordable energy

9
Electricity Not in their lifetime
Enemies of development
  • Rainforest Action Network
  • Sierra Club
  • Greenpeace
  • Environmental Defense
  • World Wildlife Fund
  • Hollywood celebrities
  • UN Environment Program
  • Citigroup, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase

10
Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Its much cheaper for everybody in Africa to
    have electricity where they need it on their
    huts.

11
Appropriate Technology politically correct
alternatives to abundant electricity
  • Firewood and dung
  • Sustainable development
  • Precautionary principle

12
The real stakeholders those who must live
with the consequences
  • Not radical activists who hold the stakes

13
Global social responsibility
  • For all people
  • For all concerns
  • For all corporations including activists

Honesty Integrity Accountability
14
Governments and communities must
  • Challenge anti-energy activists
  • Eliminate corruption and obstacles to investment
  • Stop depending on foreign aid
  • Demand proof of climate change catastrophe
  • Harness their abundant resources

15
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
www.AtlasUSA.org Congress of Racial Equality
www.CORE-online.orgpdriessen_at_cox.net
www.Eco-Imperialism.com
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