Andrew Revkin

They've shifted a lot of capacity to cook on a clean blue flame that turns off and on in homes that previously, where the woman would spend hours collecting firewood, smoky fire, cooking, clean the pots, and start all over again.

But it's all built on trust, built on the digital economy, and the same thing in Nairobi.

So that excites me every day, you know, with all the doomism.

I just hope people can literally...

Take a breath.

Look for these examples that show the potential when you have a trustworthy system, when you have a clear path to making lives better.

And then knowing, you know, that kid having electric light as opposed to a kerosene lamp, we don't know how much that's going to improve his homework.

and lead to a better outcome.

But we know from history that sometimes it does.

Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary General, told the most powerful story I ever heard from a UN Secretary General was like 2012 when they were rolling out this Sustainable Energy for All initiative, which is not just climate, it was just like getting people energy they need to survive and thrive.

He was growing up in post-war Korea,

Everyone was poor.

Everything was broken, destroyed.

Sadly, like so much of many parts of Ukraine.

And he would do his homework by kerosene lamp.

He said when he was studying for his finals, his mom would give him a candle because it was a brighter flame, you know, better grades maybe.

And he became Secretary General.

I first wrote about that in the New York Times.

It was one of my actual page one stories.

In 2006, it was declining R&D in energy at a time of global warming.