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

Posted Dec. 30, 2022

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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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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 Dec. 30, 2022