What if I told you that someone had developed an energy source that could help us solve our biggest environmental challenges?

Purify our water and air, make our cities and homes more sanitary, and keep us safe from potential catastrophic climate change?

What if I also told you that this energy source was cheap, plentiful, and reliable?

Well, there is such a source. You probably know it as fossil fuel.

Oil, natural gas, coal, but wait, don't fossil fuels pollute our environment and make our climate unlivable?

That of course is what we're told, and what our children are taught.

But let's look at the data. Here's a graph you've probably never seen.

The correlation between use of fossil fuels and access to clean water.

More fossil fuel, more clean water.

Am I saying the more that we have used fossil fuel, the cleaner our water has become?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

In the developed world, we take clean water for granted.

We turn on a tap, and it's there.

But getting it there takes a massive amount of energy.

Think of the man-made reservoirs, the purification plants, the network of pipes.

In the undeveloped world, it's a much different story.

They lack the energy, so they lack clean water.

More fossil fuel, more clean water.

The same is true of sanitation.

By the use of cheap, plentiful, and reliable energy from fossil fuels, we have made our environment cleaner.

Take a look at this graph.

More fossil fuel? Better sanitation.

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