What would happen if the United States, seized with moral rejuvenation, led an international campaign to provide low-cost energy not just to its own citizens but to every village, city and outpost of human life on the planet?

I believe it could be done for about as much, or less, than the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and maybe Granada, have cost us.

Cheap stoves, cheap energy, and an effective management of water would change the face of civilization for the better, rather than continuing to scar it with disfiguring Stupidity- Transmitted-Diseases. Beating swords into ploughshares for the 21st century has a certain charm to it, don't you think?

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