Power Hour With Alex Epstein

On this week’s Power Hour, I interview Vijay Jayaraj, an up and coming energy/environment researcher based in India. Vijay has experienced the reality of poverty, including energy poverty, firsthand--as well as India’s rapid rise from poverty using fossil fuels. Some topics we discussed included: - Why Vijay decided to study energy and environmental issues professionally. - Vijay’s experience at the University of East Anglia during the “Climategate” scandal. - What life in the unempowered world is like for women. - What sanitation is like in the unempowered world. - Hunger challenges in the unempowered world. - How international investment revolutionized India. - How coal revolutionized India. - How the less-developed world can tell its energy story. Toward the end of the episode we began what I hope is an ongoing discussion about how the unempowered/less-developed world can tell its energy story and advocate for its right to use more fossil fuels. Vijay mentioned at the end of the episode that he’s avail