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Keeping the Lights On in a Climate Emergency
Thankfully, power cuts are now much rarer in industrialized nations (although 13% of the world population doesn’t have regular access to electricity at all). This is lucky. Most of us are utterly dependent on a large selection of plug-in devices that illuminate our evenings, entertain (and sometimes educate) our minds, cook our food, and clean our dishes. Most of us rely on electricity to work, to play and increasingly to travel. Some of us, with certain chronic and/or acute health conditions even rely on electricity to survive.