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Greater reliance on electricity and more frequent extreme weather poses risk to society

Posted by Anthony Davis

|January 30, 2019

Greater reliance on electricity and more frequent extreme weather poses risk to society

As society in general is becoming increasingly technologically advanced and reliant on electricity, the trend is making us more vulnerable in extreme weather conditions,...

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