The Missing Piece of the Clean Energy Transition | Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha | TED

The clean energy transition has a major blind spot, says energy equity expert Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha: it ignores millions of people without access to energy. Highlighting grassroots women's organizations leading the charge towards universal access, she makes a powerful call to prioritize gender equality in energy policies — and to create a sustainable future where no one is left in the dark.

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[cobacobla]

adressing energy poverty: helpfull
needlessly gendering the discussion: not helpfull

[professorh]

Indoor pollution... Such a pity. Thankful that this is being brought up.

[MrSilentSlender]

Instead of the real problem sources (poverty, lack of investments and education, failed states etc), just blaming it on a lack of diversity. Wow.

[AdvantestInc]

Addressing women's energy poverty is crucial for a sustainable future. Empowering women-led organizations is a step in the right direction!

[main___name___main___name]

The missing piece is "clean".

[Drunkendrakon]

What is she yapping about. Putting women in charge of the energy is not going to build more powerplants in Africa. They got to do it thenselves or pay people to get it done. This is all just crock.

[ruudhop]

I tought i had the solution for all countries to get water and cheap energy to build farms and airports to fly with electric aircrafts the harvest to the consumers destination.
But i am a men and think big to help 2.3 billion people to survive.
Finance is not the biggest part but a creative plan to execute in 5 years.
I should dig canals into Africa from Senegal coast into the Sahara.
Near the canal farms with 50-100 houses for the staff.
200 meter from the canal water well to pump up clear water for drink peoples and animals and irrigate the farm fields.
Also an innovative system to turn water into hydrogen without electrolysis and turn it into electricity.
A salt energy storage container to keep electricity always available.
This project must be structural and give peoples perpective.
Also turn the Sahara in Woods and farmland.
Only an idea....can be also done by women!
BTW i developed that water to hydrogen production system but an inventor (not company) will not be heard. Only companies and universities are heard.
Otherwise we were already digging now.

[concernedcitizen]

The missing, vital piece of information is that it’s impossible — fairytale nonsense.

[Dioni-yj]

Cassiterite, Coltan, wolfram, peat (used for electricity generation or processed as an alternative for firewood), gold and Nickel.are people get any profit of this?

[MGBranco]

We still have a long way to go....first guaratee the basics, education and health to all! Then organize the work of 8 billion towards global thrive by objectivs! Whitin 50 years we are getting to Andromeda!

[christopherscobie]

Well said. Here, here.. working on it too.

[andycordy]

I absolutely love the idea of women taking over their own resources management. However, as hinted at here, this requires stability and peace and not least the suppression of misogynist ruling groups of men and fundamentalist religious activity which continue to prevent gender parity in work across much of the world.

[DeanDangerousTDD]

(3:40) Male I'm thinking it is more dominated by the financial wealthy class.
I think that our system is set up in a way to where the people with money choose who they want to see get
the opportunity to make money instead of allowing the people a fair chance to earn the money that they
deserve. But now getting back to what Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha is saying here though.
I do think that she brings up some very important issues regarding how many people on planet Earth are being deprived of even the basic necessities to live for reasons that can't be understood by Us the 99% due to us
either not caring or due to us not having access to the full picture that explains exactly how this is for some of
us, our unfair reality here on Earth.
I pray for the people who are suffering in the world. I pray that their life's reality is eventually someday
fulfilled with a great level of comfort, hope, & purpose.
American Intermediary Documentary 07/25/2024

[pottedrosepetal]

So now poverty is the mens fault? Huh. So, putting aside this reasoning, maybe we should ask WHY mostly men work in the energy sector. As someone who works in the sector I can confirm there are almost no women.
But let me list some jobs that exist (sorry for not translating it properly, I dont work in an english speaking country):
- Grid Operator, people who 24/7 coordinate the high voltage grids and try to prevent faults, solve faults and in general watch over the grid. This is a shift job.
- Power plant operator, basically the same except they also look out for the financial aspect so their powerplant only runs when it makes money.
- switcher, basically is responsible for maintaining the grid, shutting down bad parts of it, resupplying the new ones. This includes switching switches that if they fail can absolutely explode and take down the whole room with them. They work with switches that are 4m tall, 3m long and 1m wide. Those are pretty okay safe, but the responsibility and the danger IF something happens makes it hard.
- cable guys, they basically are responsible for the thousands of kilometers of cable. They can regularly fail, they have to work on lines that carry multiple thousands of volts and being stupid means death most of the time.

There are of course also jobs like planning the power grid, looking out for the safety devices and communication devices etc., but lets not forget that those 15% women also include the jobs above. I have never heard anyone in my sector say we dont want women. Women just dont apply. Even for the jobs that are more desk prone you need to go towards electrical engineering, which no women study, at my uni we had 10% women. And there were no systematic hurdles for that. Its just what women choose. Thats where you have to tackle it if you want more women in the sector, and most men in the sector would absolutely support you.
This may be different in developing countries. But it just feels weird to blame men when we want women in our sector as much as seemingly her.

[StigHelmer]

South Africa used to have good access to electricity then something happened and they no longer have that...

[garlicsauce]

To help women in islamic countries? No, we will perform ourselvess on the platform and state, which has more freedom than 50 % of the world. Sancho Panza is fighting windmills again.

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