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🗓️ 4 July 2022
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Alex Epstein is an energy theorist, the Founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress and an author.
Fossil fuels are a contentious topic. If you've currently got your hands glued to the surface of a road in England, you may not want any more being used. But if we follow an environmentalist approach, what impact will reducing fossil fuel use have on human flourishing in the future, especially in the poorest parts of the world?
Expect to learn why all our energy cost so much right now, why 2 billion people get their energy by burning wood and dung, how renewable sources are causing more problems not less, Alex's thoughts on the modern ESG movement, whether fossil fuels will create a climate apocalypse, why China tried to stop Alex from releasing his book and much more...
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0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Alex Epstein. He's an energy |
0:05.2 | theorist, the founder and president of the Centre for Industrial Progress, and an author. |
0:10.3 | Fossil fuels are a contentious topic. If you've currently got your hands glued to the surface |
0:14.9 | of a road in England, you may not want any more being used. But if we follow an environmental |
0:20.5 | ist approach, what impact will reducing fossil fuel have on human flourishing in the future, |
0:26.0 | especially in the poorest parts of the world? Expect to learn why all of our energy costs so much |
0:32.0 | right now, why two billion people get their energy by burning wood and dung, how renewable sources |
0:37.7 | are causing more problems, not less. Alex's thoughts on the modern ESG movement, |
0:42.3 | where the fossil fuels will create a climate apocalypse, why China tried to stop Alex from |
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