Africa Clean Cooking IEA Report

The energy industry is very crucial since it powers every other industry but for the Africa, clean cooking is what we should be concerned about. We literally have minimal industries or manufacturing. Our economies are made up of a farming population with 6-7 of 10 people in agriculture, and just 2-4% of it mechanized. Most of the energy an average African consumes is in cooking and keeping their families warm and not transportation or electricity.

The world has about 2 billion people without access to clean cooking, with 50% in Africa. That makes up a quarter of the global population. These two billion depend on firewood, cow dung, crop residue and charcoal. All of these, except expensive charcoal, are dirtier than the dirtiest coal- lignite. I have done a charcoal burning video before and I can tell you that charcoal burning is tedious process and anyone would choose burning the wood directly. Plus, charcoal is expensive to buy and hurts the biodiversity more. The number of trees that have been hurt for charcoal burning is far more than those cut down to make more land for farming.

IEA, which has turned alarmist in recent years that the US is thinking of ditching it, continues to dig deep into clean cooking problem in Africa. Lack of access to clean cooking is a problem that is responsible for over 3.2 million premature deaths annually, with almost a million of those in Africa. This should be a problem that everyone concerned about our welfare, and climate change, should be worried about. According to WHO, in 2019 there were about 9 million deaths in Africa. Assuming the number is constant today, 815 000 deaths premature deaths from indoor pollution should be a leading cause of death in Africa. Why is Anti-African UN quite about this but very vocal about COVID, flu, measles and typhoid shots? Why do we have a gazillion organizations for HIV/AIDS and not clean cooking, the number one killer in Africa? It is why I have called for the jailing of climate activists throughout the world, but especially those very active against life saving Fossil Fuels in Africa- most of them paid handsomely by antihumanist UN.