Juice: How Electricity Explains the World

poverty, women’s rights, climate change — indeed, many of the world’s most pressing challenges — can be explained by answering one simple question: can you turn your lights on in the morning? this 80-minute documentary underscores the defining inequality in the world: the disparity between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. today, roughly 3 billion people are using less electricity than what’s consumed by an average american refrigerator. over a three-year period, the juice team traveled 60,000 miles to interview more than 50 people from seven countries on five continents to tell the human story of electricity and why power equals power. juice does in fact explain the world. we’re gonna show you how.