263: Let's Get Alex Epstein on Bill Maher

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Earth nearing its eight billionth resident has Bill Maher very concerned. More people means more CO2 and that means catastrophe. Unconcerned is Alex Epstein, author of the book Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less. Alex thinks we should carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages while deciding what to do with fossil fuels. He believes the widespread idea that rising CO2 will make the Earth unlivable is literally impossible and he would like to tell Bill why. Instead, he tells us.

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0:00.0	So you sat there doing all this financial modeling and I love doing stuff like that by the way.
0:05.7	I actually love sitting there and working out, is everything gonna be okay?
0:09.9	It is so rewarding when you get to that point where the business has finally turned around.
0:16.1	Sage empowers finance professionals like Kat to feel more rewarded,
0:22.1	with helpful business tools and advice from real experts.
0:26.0	Sage, helping business flow.
0:29.6	This is the way I heard it episode number 263.
0:37.2	We're calling this one, let's get Alex Epstein on Bill Mar.
0:42.8	Because it's a good goal, Chuck.
0:45.5	He would like that very much and I think he deserves to be.
0:49.0	He wants to refute something that Bill said on his program last Friday.
0:55.4	Yeah, and to be clear, when I say let's get him on Bill Mar,
0:59.2	I mean on Bill Mar's TV show.
1:01.3	I don't want to make this weird or very good clarification.
1:05.9	Yeah, Bill Mar as some of you might know is a guy I know.
1:10.6	I've been on his show, I was on there years ago and we had a very civil conversation.
1:15.0	We don't see eye to eye on a lot.
1:17.1	Here of late, I've shared a lot of his rants because he's come out very strongly
1:23.3	in favor of free speech issues and some other things that I happen to agree with.
1:28.2	And I've always believed credit where it is due is fair.
1:33.6	But his most recent rant on the population explosion, he calls it an explosion.
1:40.0	I'm not sure it is, but we're about to celebrate, mourn or acknowledge the eight billionth
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