Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger
socialMar 31𝕏
In a small village in the Punjab, a girl of about eight years old crouches over a clay stove, feeding it patties of d...
In a small village in the Punjab, a girl of about eight years old crouches over a clay stove, feeding it patties of dried cow dung. Smoke billows into her face. She coughs while feeding the fire. There is no reliable electricity. When the family gets a little extra money, they buy liquified petroleum gas (LPG), which burns cleanly, as natural gas does in stoves in the wealthy West. Unfortunately, that LPG just got priced out of reach for hundreds of millions like her. The 2026 Iran war and th...
