75: Why the world needs fossil fuels, with Alex Epstein

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Alex Epstein talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need cheap energy for humanity to flourish, the backwardness of the green movement, and why Net Zero is more dangerous than climate change.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Brendan here with a very exciting announcement. The legendary history and David
0:05.3	Starkey will be joining me for a special live recording of this podcast on Tuesday 14th December.
0:11.9	David and I will be live on Zoom talking about the history wars, green hysteria,
0:16.7	the tyranny of woke and much more. Spike supporters can join us for free. If you're a Spike
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0:31.8	perks. Tickets will go on general sale next week if there are any left, but Spike supporters
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0:55.3	Now on with a show. You basically went from a world of nature and manual labor to a world of
1:05.7	machine labor and human mental labor and that is a much better world and if you don't have a bias
1:11.2	against human beings, you really have to marvel at how great a world of machine labor and mental
1:16.1	labor is compared to a world of manual labor. And it doesn't really matter like you would take
1:20.7	twice as naturally dangerous a climate if you could have the machine labor of the mental.
1:25.2	Like you'd easily like would you take twice as many hurricanes? If you have the ability to
1:28.9	protect yourself against hurricanes, you'd probably take three times more.
1:35.2	Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill. This is a podcast in which
1:40.7	an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, the problems and the
1:45.9	controversies of life in the early 21st century. In this episode I am delighted to be joined by
1:51.6	Alex Epstein. Alex is an American author and energy theorist. He is founder of the Center for
1:57.7	Industrial Progress and is a former fellow of the Iron Rand Center. He's one of the best known and
2:03.1	most articulate defenders of using fossil fuels. He's author of the books, Fossil fuels improve
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