Heat, air conditioning, lamps, microwaves, phones, TVs: all of these things listed are powered by the very powerful thing we know as electricity. You can walk down the street and ask anybody if they know what electricity is, and of course no matter their living status they will know what electricity is. That is the privilege of living in the United States. According to the World Data Bank, 100% of the population in the United States has access to electricity. This doesn’t matter if you are homeless, poor, a child or adult. We all have access to electricity. Because we have the access to such a powerful tool, we do not realize that we do abuse the right to have electricity. Every single day we leave lights on, the air conditioner running, and our laptops and phones plugged without having to worry about whether or not we will have enough electricity to do so. …show more content…
A kilowatt is equal to leaving a 100-watt bulb on for 10 hours, or the typical 13-kilowatt bulb, for 130 hours. We use electricity like it is nothing we do not even have to ever think about it, it kind of just happens. This is not the case if we travel to other continents and countries around the world. There is a graph that the World Data Bank has on their site, and it shows a lay out of the world. Each area is shaded according to the accessibility of electricity there, and the continent Africa stood out dramatically. It was the only continent shaded a different color. It was shaded a soft pink, meaning that less than 5% of the population in all of the countries have access to electricity. Living in a place like Africa after having lived in America is impossible to