We Need to Stop Thinking About Climate in an Anti-Human Way

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey welcome author Alex Epstein to the
show. Alex has written several books advocating for the use of fossil fuels, including his most
recent work, Fossil Future. The self-described "energy-freedom advocate" joins the podcast
to challenge the popular climate-change narrative and provide more context for the crucial
role fossil fuels play in society.

Alex kicks things off by weighing in on the debate around climate change and the effects of
fossil fuels. He argues that the benefits of using fossil fuels far outweigh the negatives and
that, in many cases, energy can be used to overcome any adverse effects. Alex also breaks
down the myth of unsustainability, the anti-human bias implicit in environmentalism, and
the incorrect belief that more folks die of climate-related catastrophes today than in the
past. (2:38)

Next, Alex discusses his impact with politicians and lawmakers. He explains that 200 major
political offices use his content to direct policy and become more informed on energy topics.
Alex then shares his opinion on climate change, pointing out that we're currently in a climate
renaissance and that the Earth has never been more livable for human beings. He brings up
geoengineering as a way to cool the climate, asserts that the negative environmental
impacts are severely overblown, and emphasizes the crucial role energy plays in the
economy. (21:30)

Finally, Alex talks about climate-change rhetoric dominating in elections, the harm that tech
companies have done by blatantly lying about being 100% renewable, and why humans
should take pride in the fact that we're progressing as a species and learning to use the
Earth in new ways. He puts the anti-impact perspective into both a philosophical and
historical context, noting that primitive religions believed "sinning" against nature had dire
consequences. (34:19)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm Dan Ferris. I'm the editor of Extreme Value and the Ferris Report, both published by Stansberry Research. And I'm Corey McLaughlin, editor of the Stansberry Daily Digest. Today we talk with Alex Epstein, author of Fossil Future. Yeah, let's talk about that. Fossil Future is an interesting book. I've been looking through it, and Alex
0:22.4	is a, he's like a kind of a philosophical energy expert. He's got a background in philosophy,
0:29.0	and he, I think he worked with the Cato Institute for a while, the Unram Institute. So he's a
0:34.6	sort of liberty-minded philosophical guy who's written a couple of books about fossil fuels.
0:43.1	The first one was the moral case for fossil fuels.
0:48.3	You can tell the Iron Man background is there, right?
0:52.3	And the second of, is fossil future.
1:17.0	Yeah, and I think what you'll hear is a framework for thinking about some of these energy issues that are always talked about in the mainstream and in a way that probably maybe
1:23.8	haven't heard before or too often at the very least.
1:27.2	He's the founder of the Center for
1:29.2	Industrial Progress and also has a good free newsletter energy talking points. Recovers a lot of
1:38.7	different subjects in the energy sector and electrical grid, fossil fuels, nuclear, all kinds of stuff.
1:47.2	So, yeah, looking forward to talking to them.
1:48.9	Yeah, the Center for Industrial Progress, it says, on the book jacket, it says,
1:53.5	offers a positive pro-human alternative to the green movement.
2:00.3	Well, thank God somebody's doing it.
2:02.6	I feel like humans are under assault all around the world all over the place.
2:06.6	You know, I mean, geez, the farmers have to protest and block the highways in Europe
2:12.6	just to keep farming and producing food for human beings.
2:16.6	So there's definitely some need for a pro-human voice of the world.
2:22.9	So to that end, let's get a pro-human voice on the line here.
2:26.8	Let's talk with energy expert and author.
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