Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

My philosophy background enabled me to understand why our leading thinkers made the errors of ignoring the benefits of fossil fuels and catastrophizing the side-effects: they accept, sometimes knowingly sometimes not, anti-human *assumptions* and anti-human *values*. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 30, 2022

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

For example, as I document in Chapter 2 of Fossil Future, our leading thinkers and institutions predicted for decades that fossil fuels would drive catastrophic resource depletion, pollution, and climate danger, whereas in fact FFs drove huge improvements in all these areas. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 30, 2022

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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 assumption”: Earth unimpacted by humans exists in a delicate, nurturing (stable, safe, sufficient) balance that human impact ruins. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 30, 2022