Nearly one quarter of humanity has no access to electricity and even more don’t have clean cooking facilities, meaning women and children spend hours a day gathering wood or cow dung for cook stoves that spread lung disease and other ailments. Most the of the world’s hotbeds of terrorism are failed or failing states that lack decent energy services. Lifting their citizens out of energy poverty is not just a moral imperative, but will bring benefits to the whole world. This book is the first volume-length effort to address this issue comprehensively, explain the scope of the problem and suggest practical ways to fix it.