Seeking to End Suffering by Ending Energy Poverty

Seeking to End Suffering by Ending Energy Poverty
The South African energy provider Eskom's coal power plant Lethabo in Sasolburg on Nov. 2, 2015. MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A former Texas state lawmaker is spearheading a campaign against radical environmentalists and powerful international organizations, whose policies keep people in developing nations in desperate poverty and misery by discouraging the development of electricity-based networks worldwide.

Jason Isaac is taking aim at those promoting the scourge of “energy poverty,” which keeps people in underdeveloped countries poor and sick, 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.