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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Get #FossilFuture: https://t.co/KvYDUsRB55 Watch the full interview on @Drinkin_Bros Podcast: https://t.co/Lku2LJ0xfJ — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
On WEF/@Davos: “I thought, well maybe there's some admission of guilt, because they've told the world to get off FFs and that's caused this crisis and people are starving… the same people flew their private jets out there and they said all the same things.” With @Drinkin_Bros https://t.co/0Xz2cFClON — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Fossil Future is a dense, carefully-referenced 400+ pages. In this article I distill many of its key points into a 10-minute read. https://t.co/KSVESmsWsd — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
@Alex_Pundit Yes, chapter 5. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
@Gatoraid20 Yes, chapter 9. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
“If the creators and actors of Don’t Look Up want to save the world, they should join me in championing fossil fuels, along with the freedom necessary for truly cost-effective non-carbon alternatives to emerge.” https://t.co/k6hTvyK6jW — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
“We're taught to look at fossil fuels in a very weird way, in a way that we don't look at other things.” Watch the full interview with @DanCrenshawTX on Hold these Truths Podcast: https://t.co/HJdRDBdJfe Get Fossil Future: https://t.co/KvYDUsA0dx https://t.co/wGMkD93ldy — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
RT @ScottAdamsSays: This thread could save the world. That is not an exaggeration. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
"If you think fossil fuels are destined to be obsoleted, you owe it to yourself to read this powerful refutation from one of this generation's most important writers." - @saifedean https://t.co/KStDzypBFU — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
If you're new to my work, follow me @AlexEpstein for extreme clarity on energy, environmental, and climate issues from a humanist perspective. Also, subscribe to my newsletter, featuring lots of concise, powerful, well-referenced energy talking points. https://t.co/03TQZm7Zzb — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Here are some of the dozens of endorsements Fossil Future has gotten. But to me the most important endorsements are the daily ones I see from people who say Fossil Future changed their mind on this issue. To change more minds, please spread the word! https://t.co/bGCqHQskkT https://t.co/1FvyQP4LLH — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Here are some of the dozens of endorsements Fossil Future has gotten. But to me the most important endorsements are the daily ones I see from people who say Fossil Future changed their mind on this issue. To change more minds, please spread the word! https://t.co/bGCqHQskkT — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
In the 3 months Fossil Future has been out, many people have attacked me personally or tried to straw-man my case. But no one has come close to refuting my case. Because it's based on irrefutable principles and undeniable facts. https://t.co/KvYDUsA0dx — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
If you are a student or educator, you can get a free copy of Fossil Future from Young America's Foundation (@yaf). Just use this link. https://t.co/5La9K7C2CN — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The ultimate synthesis of my 15 years of trying to understand the full benefits and side-effects of fossil fuels is my new, blockbuster book “Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less.” https://t.co/CUh25cN9qu — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Realizing that leading thinkers and institutions were driven by anti-human ideas to ignore fossil fuels’ benefits and catastrophize their side-effects motivated me as a philosopher to become an energy expert and discover the truth about fossil fuels' benefits and side-effects. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Observe that leading opponents of fossil fuels are not just hostile to fossil fuels but also to nuclear, hydro, and the mining and development involved in solar and wind. Always because of their impact on Earth. Clearly they prioritize eliminating impact over human flourishing. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The major philosophical reason leading thinkers ignore fossil fuels’ benefits is that their primary moral goal is not advancing human flourishing on Earth but eliminating human impact on Earth. Because fossil fuels' benefits impact Earth a lot they are unimportant and even bad. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The truth is that Earth is not a “delicate nurturer” but “wild potential” (dynamic, deficient, dangerous) and human beings are “producer-improvers” who can impact it for the better. When you recognize this truth you value human impact and expect us overcome problems. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
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
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
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
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
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
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Summary: If we look at the undeniable facts about FFs and climate using 3 irrefutable principles for thinking about FFs—factoring in fossil fuels’ 1) benefits, 2) climate mastery benefits, and 3) precise negative and positive climate side-effects—we clearly need more fossil fuel. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The bottom line with fossil fuels’ climate side-effects is that any negatives will continue to be masterable—and there will be benefits such as warming in cold places and continued global greening. This nowhere near apocalyptic—whereas losing FFs' benefits would be apocalyptic. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Note: the UN IPCC is an extremely flawed, catastrophizing organization. It denies the enormous life-or-death benefits of fossil fuels—most shamefully of all, the climate mastery benefits of fossil fuels that have driven climate-related disaster deaths to all-time lows. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
The most plausible danger of rising CO2 levels and temps is rapid sea level rises that would destroy coastal investments. But extreme UN projections are just 3 feet in 100 years. Future generations can master that. (We already have 100M people living below high-tide sea level.) https://t.co/XD4mfaMZVA — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Undeniable climate fact 5: IPCC projected impacts are masterable with fossil fuels Even the IPCC, with many catastrophist tendencies, projects impacts from warming and associated climate changes that would be masterable with fossil fuels. E.g., storms being 1-10% more intense. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
While we’re taught to think that warming will accelerate indefinitely as CO2 levels rise, this contradicts the physics of the greenhouse effect (and the history of Earth). That’s why even the UN’s most extreme scenarios show warming leveling off as CO2 levels rise. — PolitiTweet.org
Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein
Undeniable climate fact 4: Rising CO2 leads to diminishing warming Mainstream climate science is unanimous about a conclusion that the public is, shamefully, not made aware of: the “greenhouse effect” of CO2 is a *diminishing* effect, with additional CO2 leading to less warming. — PolitiTweet.org
