Don Brunell

For decades, radio newsman Paul Harvey gave us a side of the news that we either hadn’t heard or hadn’t considered. His “Rest of the Story” commentaries provided an in-depth look at the news behind the headlines.

Today, all the headlines are about the negative impacts of fossil fuels. But when you dig deeper, as Paul Harvey did, you get the rest of the story.

For thousands of years, food, water, clothing and shelter were the basic necessities of life. Today, we need to include electricity.

In China and India, home to more than a third of the world’s 7.25 billion people, 85,000 people move into...