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The irrefutable case for a Fossil Future If we want a world in which all 8 billion of us have the opportunity to flourish—to live long, healthy, prosperous, fulfilling lives—we need to use *more*, not less, fossil fuel going forward. A summary of my book Fossil Future. 🧵👇

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"[By 1995]... somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” - Senator Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970. #Catastrophizing

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Human progress required massive innovation. Net Zero threatens a return to feudalism.

“If you are for policies that are provably terrible for humans, it's pretty hard to argue that you're pro-human… Alex Epstein makes this point quite convincingly in his last two books” –

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“Do yourself a favour. Read this book and give yourself the arguments you need. Net Zero world feels very much like the lunatics are running the asylum.” –

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“The EPA’s proposed rules are an existential threat to our grid and should be an early target of House oversight so that these disastrous rules can be exposed to the light of day and prevented from coming into existence.”

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“I started as a philosopher, which means I'm very interested in ‘what are the fundamental ideas that shape our thinking and our action… Before you approach a problem, what are the methods and the principles that you use to determine the answer?’” At

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“Whenever someone offers you ‘science,’ not to inform your voluntary choices but to impose a ban on you, you can be confident that what they are calling science is a distortion.”

Energy Talking Points - stoves

Instead of informing us with accurate science about gas stoves so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting science

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TX has spent a fortune on solar, wind, batteries, and transmission lines—and stolen a fortune of the rest of the US’s money via solar/wind subsidies. What did it have to show for it this morning? 1% renewable and drained batteries. #unreliables

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“Al Gore has been so wrong about energy and climate, that actually in Fossil Future, I had to invent a new term for it, it's called ‘being 180 degrees wrong’” With

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"With facts, logic and moral clarity, Epstein illustrates that policy makers and the public at large need to rethink almost everything they think they know about the topic. All of our lives depend on it." -

“The world needs to reject the ‘green’ movement and instead embrace a ‘human flourishing’ movement that embraces intelligent human impact on Earth as a good thing”

Energy Talking Points - fusion

The “green energy” movement is celebrating a technical breakthrough in nuclear fusion, in order to distract from the catastrophic consequences of its anti-fission, anti-fossil-fuel policies.

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"Global production of conventional oil will begin to decline sooner than most people think, probably within 10 years" - Colin Campbell & Jean Laherrere in

@sciam

1998 #Catastrophizing

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Book Interview: Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires

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Jan 18, 2023 – In this fantastic and wide-ranging interview, Financial Sense's Jim Puplava sits down with Alex Epstein to discuss the many facts and realities underlying the use of fossil fuels in

“when you're thinking about replacing fossil fuels, you need to recognize the world needs far more energy. So, you're not just replacing the same portion of the same pie… Fossil fuels are 80+ percent of a growing pie.” With

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“I always knew on some level that fossil fuels were good, but I never understood the depth of it. I now understand that our world is entirely based on fossil fuels, and that is a good thing.” Get Fossil Future: FossilFuture.com

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“The major philosophical reason leading thinkers ignore fossil fuels’ benefits is that their primary moral goal is not advancing human flourishing on Earth but eliminating human impact on Earth. To them fossil fuels’ benefits are unimportant or even bad”

Energy Talking Points - story

How I became the world’s leading champion of fossil fuels

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Alex Epstein talks Climate Change

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, president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy:

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American author and fossil fuel advocate, Alex Epstein, sits down with MCPP CEO & President Douglas Carswell to discuss climate change.

“oil has a very distinctive… energy density, a high concentration of energy that makes it very, very suitable, particularly for mobile applications, such as running the combine harvesters that allow one person to be 1000 times more productive” With

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“Nationally, as demand has increased over the last 10 years we have seen a decline in reliable capacity (gas, coal, oil, nuclear, hydro) by 5%.”

Energy Talking Points - hearings

Republicans are promising a pro-energy agenda. Here are 4 essential topics they should take up.

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“[Nuclear] is the most promising potential long term replacement to fossil fuels by far.” Watch the full interview with

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"Such an awesome book by Alex Epstein!!! Made me really think deeply about this argument and made me realize I neglect to consider how much of a positive impact fossil fuels have had on humanity" -

If you want to see what it looks like for a very smart reviewer to actually engage with Fossil Future, including to try to challenge it, read economist

@bryan_caplan

's numerous posts about the book.

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My basic criterion for a good review is that by reading it you have a good idea of the author's main argument. If you read every negative "review" of Fossil Future you will have a very distorted, straw-man view of what I argue and how I argue it. Read FF and see for yourself.

I'm getting a bunch of questions about some half-negative "reviews" of Fossil Future this week by

@RogerPielkeJr

and

@tylercowen

(both very smart guys). I will make a video in the next month addressing all major negative reviews. My 3 word summary: Straw Man Fallacy.

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“There are many decisions that families make that affect kids’ health far more than a gas vs. electric stove… Do governments then get to dictate all these?”

Energy Talking Points - stoves

Instead of informing us with accurate science about gas stoves so we can make better decisions, anti-fossil fuel activists are distorting science

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Thanks to

for the original snapshot (markup was mine). Check out David Blackmon’s work. He and I have both been warning the world for a long time about the perils of pretending to replace reliable power sources with unreliable solar and wind.

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"The Everglades National Park faces a decisive threat to its existence. On a site at the northern edge of the park, Miami proposes to build the world's biggest airport, covering 39 square miles." -

@nytimes

, 1969 #Catastrophizing

“What I call this ‘delicate nurturer dogma’ is unfortunately pervasive in earth sciences today. It's a very primitive and bizarre view.” Watch the full interview with

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Ok, now you need to read his updated work, “ Fossil Future.” For all of us engaged in the energy policy arena of ideas, his work is very important. Una cosa más, espero que algún día tu isla de Cuban estaré libre!!

Book Review: In His Excellent 'Fossil Future,' Alex Epstein Teaches You How To Think

“If you read Fossil Future you will think differently, while seeing clearly that oil and other fossil fuels make abundant sense now and well beyond now” –

author, Editor

, VP

In his wonderful book American Happiness and Its Discontents, George Will wrote that Founding Father John Adams began each day with a tankard of beer. The anecdote read as incongruous. How could

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“When asked in 1989 about the prospect of fusion by the LA Times, leading ‘green’ thinker Paul Ehrlich said that… the prospect of cheap, inexhaustible power from fusion is ‘like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.’”

Energy Talking Points - fusion

The “green energy” movement is celebrating a technical breakthrough in nuclear fusion, in order to distract from the catastrophic consequences of its anti-fission, anti-fossil-fuel policies.