Energy Poverty

What to Know: Green New Deal advocates like U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may say they’re advocating on behalf of the poor, but great human suffering is caused by lack of access to cheap, reliable energy, says TPPF’s Jason Isaac.

“A former Texas state lawmaker is spearheading a campaign against radical environmentalists and powerful international organizations whose policies keep people in the Third World in desperate poverty and misery by discouraging the development of electricity-based networks worldwide,” the New York-based Epoch Times reports. “Jason Isaac is taking aim at those promoting the scourge of ‘energy poverty,’ which keeps people in underdeveloped countries poor and sick, literally shaving decades off life expectancies on the African continent and elsewhere by making it difficult for consumers to access electric power for their daily needs.”

The TPPF Take: Energy poverty makes life harder for the poor and for developing nations.

“Electricity is necessary component in our world, a world with hospitals, refrigeration for food and medicines, and clean cooking, heating and cooling,” says Isaac. “When supporters of the Green New Deal, and their counterparts at the United Nations (with its Sustainable Development Goals), seek to ban fossil fuels, they’re really condemning the poor and those in developing countries to shorter, less healthy lives. Instead, we should embrace the role of affordable, accessible electricity in improving lives and the environment.”

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