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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Promote positive, pro-FF and pro-alternative policies Long-term policy change requires not just criticizing bad policies but advancing good policies that liberate fossil fuels + alternatives. To this end I have created a 5-point Energy Freedom Platform. https://t.co/sN3eBo5JjQ — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Spread energy humanist arguments as efficiently as possible To maximize our chances at long-term policy change we need to be persuasively efficient. To this end I have created https://t.co/NrUWETh9Vn, which provides concise, well-referenced arguments on every conceivable issue. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Here are some resources implicating today’s anti-fossil-fuel establishment for today’s crisis: https://t.co/mWN6T5LiGf https://t.co/j6s60DP2vF https://t.co/xzR2jEOYmG https://t.co/B7JXyu12TT I also highly recommend @ShellenbergerMD’s Substack in this regard (and others). — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Implicate the anti-FF movement for causing today’s crisis The public understanding of who is implicated for a crisis and who is vindicated by a crisis has huge effects on influence going forward. Today’s anti-FF establishment deserves to be implicated for today’s crisis. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Recommendation: Take advantage of the opportunity to promote long-term fossil fuel policy change: * Implicate the anti-FF movement for causing today’s crisis * Spread energy humanist arguments as efficiently as possible * Promote positive, pro-FF and pro-alternative policies — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
While the changes in fossil fuel perception and short-term policy are encouraging, most nations have not yet reversed their long-term commitment to rapidly eliminating FF use. E.g, in the US congress just passed the disastrous "Inflation Reduction Act." https://t.co/K2JjFSqFp0 — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The Energy Litmus Test Want to know whether a candidate is truly supportive of American energy? Here's one simple… https://t.co/xNJaY7hTxy
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Evidence of more humanistic thinking and policies: nuclear energy, long opposed by the green movement in favor of unreliable solar/wind, is now being embraced around the world—including significant policy reversals in California and Germany. https://t.co/JYyKy79qCA — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Short-term policy change: In the UK, where policies have encouraged wind power and decimated nuclear and coal, the new government has lifted the preemptive fracking ban to bolster domestic natural gas supply in recognition of today’s energy realities. https://t.co/8w82L7GxbS — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Short-term policy change: In Europe, coal power plants are being reactivated to meet demand. Governments promise this is a temporary measure but it reveals the gap between supply and demand left by the policies that foolishly destroyed domestic fossil fuels with no replacement. https://t.co/Z5lRcYkhVD — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Evidence of fossil fuel perception change: Elon Musk, often a bellwether of public opinion, has gone from a FF-attacker + climate catastrophist to someone who supports near-term oil/gas development and reassures the public that we don’t face imminent climate catastrophe. https://t.co/4ui5ehW2Mz — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Evidence of changing fossil fuel perception: Where climate activists engaging in publicity stunts used to garner great sympathy, their stunts are increasingly condemned by a public that wants lower fossil fuel prices. https://t.co/k0FJO2kwSu — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
President Biden made a 180° in rhetoric as soon as high energy prices threatened reality to collide with November election prospects of Democrats. Instead of taking credit for hampering fossil fuel production, he now blames everyone but himself. https://t.co/An8mQYiZM1 — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Evidence of changing fossil fuel perception: In March, the WH, trying to portray itself as pro-FF, absurdly claimed that "there is nothing standing in the way of domestic oil production." Vs. when Biden ran, he felt comfortable saying "I guarantee you, we’re going to end FFs." https://t.co/w2Kj9ybuGP — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Trend 5: Many people are thinking differently about fossil fuels The combination of a global crisis caused by anti-FF policies and the rise of humanistic arguments for FFs is rapidly changing perception and short-term policy. And there is potential for long-term policy change. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Recommendation for energy-related companies: Utilize the latest humanistic arguments on energy and climate issues throughout your communications: recruiting, employee relations, lobbying, investor relations, etc. For an intro to these arguments check out https://t.co/NrUWETh9Vn — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Energy humanist arguments for fossil fuels are rapidly and deservingly more prominent in light of today’s energy crisis. Many of us warned that anti-FF policies would cause such a crises, while our opponents assured the world that these policies would turn out great. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The anti-FF establishment has done an embarrassingly bad job at countering the "energy humanist" books. Their main tactics have been: 1) Suppression on social media 2) Straw-men attacks 3) False personal accusations They use these *because they can’t refute our core arguments*. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
In the last few years there has been a wave of bestselling, highly influential "energy humanist" books: Apocalypse Never (2020) by @ShellenbergerMD, False Alarm (2020) by @BjornLomborg, Unsettled (2021) by Steven Koonin, and Fossil Future (2022) by me. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
When you look at the full effects of fossil fuels in an evenhanded and precise way, you quickly conclude that FFs have enormous, near-term-irreplaceable benefits and that FFs’ climate side-effects are not catastrophic, let alone apocalyptic. But losing FFs’ benefits is. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
In the last 10 years we have seen the rise of "climate change believers" who support fossil fuels. I call these "energy humanists," because the core of their position is to think about all effects of energy, including FFs, on human life, not just negative climate side-effects. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The key to the anti-fossil-fuel establishment’s "moral monopoly" has been a false alternative re: FFs and climate: you’re either 1) a "climate change believer" who opposes FFs or 2) a "climate change denier" who supports FFs Since humans do impact climate, most chose 1. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Much of the anti-fossil-fuel establishment’s success in promoting horrific fossil fuel elimination policies is that they have enjoyed a "moral monopoly"—a position in which they were considered the only moral option. This was never deserved and is now being eroded. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Trend 4: Humanistic thinking about fossil fuels is on the rise A new, influential group of thinkers is thinking about FFs in a pro-human, evenhanded, precise way—not just focusing on or exaggerating their negatives. This is breaking the "moral monopoly" of the anti-FF movement. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
As more people realize that anti-fossil-fuel policies are deadly and that therefore "net zero" is catastrophic, companies that promote these ideas and pledge to follow them will be vulnerable. Witness bankers backing away from anti-FF commitments. This may accelerate now that… https://t.co/b3cqwUSVck — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Recommendation to businesses: Don’t assume that the anti-fossil-fuel establishment will keep its status. Before the establishment’s policies caused a crisis it seemed unstoppable—and allying with it via bogus "net zero" commitments seemed profitable and risk-free. No longer. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The anti-fossil-fuel establishment’s attempt to deny responsibility for the energy crisis and its refusal to reverse course is causing it to lose credibility around the world, as many harmed by the energy crisis protest and many voters demand more fossil fuels. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The world is slowly becoming warmer—at a cold point in geological history, when far more people die of cold than of heat. Thanks in large part to fossil fuels, climate-related disaster deaths have decreased 98% over the last century. This isn’t a crisis. *Lack of FF is a crisis.* https://t.co/6yHDXYpA3o — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
A final establishment attempt to deny responsibility for the energy crisis is to ignore it and instead just incessantly talk about "climate crisis." But while "climate change"—humans impacting climate—is real, "climate crisis" is not. We should focus on the energy crisis. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Another establishment attempt to deny responsibility for the energy crisis is to blame it on "climate change." E.g., blackouts and high food prices are "climate change." BS. With low-cost, reliable energy, blackouts are rare and food is cheap, whatever our climate impact. https://t.co/yysu7LA0Lf — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Another establishment attempt to deny responsibility for the energy crisis is to claim we just needed government to push solar/wind even more. But places that did this most, e.g., Germany, are suffering the most. Because solar/wind is nowhere near able to replace fossil fuels. — PolitiTweet.org
