Good gracious. If someone campaigned on a platform like that in the UK, I'd dismiss them as completely unelectable and heartbreakingly naïf. To have it come from someone in office with a better mandate than any government I've lived under (may be wrong about this but I doubt it) is quite shocking.
That said, he needs to drop the idea of electricity as a human right. At least, he either needs to do that or single-handedly solve the energy crisis...
That said, he needs to drop the idea of electricity as a human right. At least, he either needs to do that or single-handedly solve the energy crisis...
Dude, he runs a country with 6 rain-free months of intense sunshine every year, vertiginous waterways with lots of places for weirs, high winds and a fuckload of natural gas. Electricity in Bolivia needn't be fossil-fuel related - solar panels do just fine for most rural families, who prefer them to a mains electricity connection. It's mostly the World Bank who are useless at funding renewable energy projects.
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That said, he needs to drop the idea of electricity as a human right. At least, he either needs to do that or single-handedly solve the energy crisis...
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Dude, he runs a country with 6 rain-free months of intense sunshine every year, vertiginous waterways with lots of places for weirs, high winds and a fuckload of natural gas. Electricity in Bolivia needn't be fossil-fuel related - solar panels do just fine for most rural families, who prefer them to a mains electricity connection. It's mostly the World Bank who are useless at funding renewable energy projects.
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