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Fossil Future

Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

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Fossil Future

Written by: Alex Epstein
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 The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy

For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people.

And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right:

  • Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.
  • Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.
  • Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.

    • What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.

    Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.     Engineering Politics & Government Power Resources Public Policy
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    Neo (of Matrix) feels there is something wrong with the world presented to him. Global warming / Climate change had a similar effect on me. After 50 years of living in a coastal city, I have always wondered, why haven’t the beaches disappeared? Why are monsoon patterns still so regular? Why am I not seeing ‘climate change’, if it’s so prevalent.
    Till you begin to realise that the narrative is false.
    And Fossil Future provides the framework to expose the narrative - anti human, anti impact, delicate nurturer. This book is essential reading for understanding how increasingly woke academic institutions funded by power hungry governments (and unelected bureaucrats) have weaponised climate to disempower the populace with Anti-human policies on energy production. Having seen the rule book at play for covid the patterns are easily recognised. Fear porn, vilifying alternative viewpoints as ‘deniers’, taking moral high ground, politicising science.
    The book systematically dismantles every single talking point of the green movement. And inspires you to take a pro-human approach for a better world. Fossil Future provides the necessary conviction and the ammunition to counter the prevalent narrative and spread the good word.
    Thank you, Alex.

    A clear, concise and well thought out treatise on energy alternatives

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    Fossil future on the cover may appear controversial and voodoo to many. But this is a well narrated masterclass on how our civilisation has collectively worked and failed to see what is obvious. Highly recommended.

    A masterclass and pleasure to read

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    The book is unnecessarily lengthy and narration is very bad.It seems that the narrator is not narrating but only reading the book.

    Good book bad narration

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