Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

You might be wondering: Why do our leading thinkers make the errors of ignoring the benefits of fossil fuels and catastrophizing their climate side-effects? My answer: they accept, sometimes knowingly sometimes not, anti-human *assumptions* and anti-human *values*. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022

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Note: To fully think about the benefits and side-effects of FFs you also must factor in non-climate side-effects, e.g., air/water emissions. I do this in Fossil Future. Bottom line: these are 1) hugely outweighed by benefits and 2) reducible cost-effectively as the US has shown. https://t.co/ZlXCyC3BL9 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022

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The major philosophical reason leading thinkers catastrophize the side-effects of fossil fuels is a false assumption I call "the delicate nurturer": Earth/climate unimpacted by humans exists in a delicate, nurturing (stable, safe, sufficient) balance that human impact ruins. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022