Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

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

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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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Insofar as you believe that Earth is a “delicate nurturer,” you believe that human beings are “parasite polluters” whose impact on Earth will *inevitably* lead to disaster. That’s why catastrophists keep thinking their next catastrophe prediction will be the one that’s right. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2022