Killing more than both Malaria and Tuberculosis, and only a few short of HIV/AIDS, this threat to the world will murder even more people if nothing is done about it. As of 2008, smoke inhalation from biomass has killed almost triple the number of people that died from Malaria. Only HIV/AIDS has killed more than smoke. However, in 2030, all of the other numbers from Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, have drastically decreased, but the number of deaths from smoke from biomass increases from around 1.4 million to 1.5 million. This is of course, if nothing drastic is done (Energy and Health). Energy poverty is only worsening across the world with unconcerned governments and countries in war. Though there are efforts trying to remedy the situation, nothing is being done enough to make a big change. Not only will energy poverty kill more and people annually, but the people dying were only cooking food for their family.
Energy poverty is a prevalent issue people all around the world face. Around 2.4 billion people living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa rely heavily on other biomass for cooking and heating (Energy and Poverty). Energy poverty is defined as the absence of adequate, safe, reliable, and high-quality resources that are environmentally friendly. These should also all be energy services to support economic and human development (Bradbrook, Adrian J.). Energy poverty is primarily in areas without modern energy, traditional metal or mud stoves, three-stone fires, brick, or cement and pottery stoves. None of these stoves have either a chimney or a hood. Consequently, biomass pollution emitted by these devices inside a house often has higher than normal levels of pollution. Even highly polluted cities have less pollution ...
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When more than 700 million people do not have access to clean water, and more than 6 million die annually from the consequences of water-related diseases, it is in those government interest to increase the standard of living (“Facts”). In addition, more than 1 billion people do not have access to electricity and more tan 2 billion people are without clean cooking facilities (“Energy Poverty”). How is it fair to tell these countries that they need to focus on renewable energy, when developed nations, like the United States, cannot seem to move away from fossil fuels? These nations need fossil fuels to increase the standard of living and decrease preventable deaths by the millions. On one hand it is important to decrease the amount of pollution caused by fossil fuels but denying poor people access to cheap fossil fuels is absolutely cruel. In addition, we need to stop telling these people that they cannot live a comfortable life because of how much more pollution they will contribute. It is the responsibility of rich nations to decrease the amount of fossil fuel, and in turn pollution, not poor nations. The framework that poor people need to stop striving to live like those in the united states is disgusting, what the framework needs to be is people living in industrialized nations need to decrease their consumption of fossil fuels. Although, in the long run it is important for poor nations to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but for now cheap fossil fuels is a quick
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