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🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Alex Epstein, author of Fossil Future and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, joins us for a reality check on fossil fuels. Many Americans have been convinced by radical environmentalists that fossil fuels are bad, if not inherently evil, and that supporting oil and gas is equivalent to supporting the environmental destruction of our planet.
Alex joins us to explain why supporting fossil fuels and supporting the environment are not mutually exclusive, and how fossil fuels have contributed to human flourishing. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexEpstein.
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0:24.0 | Many Americans hold the fundamental assumption that fossil fuels are bad, |
0:28.0 | if not inherently evil. |
0:30.0 | Activists have been successful in convincing Americans that supporting oil and gas means opposing the environment, |
0:35.0 | going so far as turning common vernacular around the energy industry like methane, fracking, drilling. |
0:40.0 | And towards that Americans inherently oppose just by hearing them. |
0:44.0 | Alex joins us today to explain why supporting fossil fuels and supporting the environment are not binary choices, |
0:49.0 | and how fossil fuels have actually contributed greatly to human flourishing. |
0:53.0 | Alex, thanks for being on. |
0:55.0 | Good to see you in person again. |
0:57.0 | Yeah, it's good to see you're short time in Houston. |
1:00.0 | So welcome. |
1:01.0 | Yeah. |
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