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Fossil Future : Why Global Human Florishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas - Not Less

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Fossil fuels are still necessary for global flourishing.

Fossil Future challenges the popular narrative of an imminent renewable energy transition and catastrophic consequences of fossil fuel use. The author argues that fossil fuels have been critical to reducing global poverty, and while they contribute to warming, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. It is recommended for those interested in energy policy and climate change discussion.

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Fossil Future : Why Global Human Florishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas - Not Less

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ISBN: 9780593420416
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱1,685.70
Authors: Alex Epstein
Publisher: Portfolio
Date of Publication: 2022-05-24
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, History, Politics, Science, Business, Philosophy
Related Topics: Society, Politics, Society, History, History
Goodreads rating: 4.17
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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 energyFor 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 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.
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Fossil fuels are still necessary for global flourishing.

Fossil Future challenges the popular narrative of an imminent renewable energy transition and catastrophic consequences of fossil fuel use. The author argues that fossil fuels have been critical to reducing global poverty, and while they contribute to warming, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. It is recommended for those interested in energy policy and climate change discussion.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.