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Heritage Explains

Why is Energy Consumption a Good Thing? | Kevin Dayaratna

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.6808 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Access to clean, abundant energy translates to better outcomes for everybody. Heritage Chief Statistician, Data Scientist, and Senior Research Fellow Kevin Dayaratna explains why it’s a bad idea to artificially restrict energy consumption in the US and around the world. 




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Powering Human Advancement: Why the World Needs Affordable and Reliable Energy: https://www.heritage.org/energy/report/powering-human-advancement-why-the-world-needs-affordable-and-reliable-energy



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0:00.0

Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.

0:07.2

There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.

0:11.9

Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

0:15.0

To remind the current regime.

0:18.0

We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.

0:22.8

All, all, have to get back in their box and stay there.

0:28.6

Likt-up.

0:29.4

We have a look-down.

0:32.4

From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

0:45.1

Thank you. Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. At the time of this podcast, it's nearing the end of the year.

0:49.7

As 2023 draws to a close, it's time to look back and take stock of what this year has brought and what we hope to accomplish in 2024.

0:59.2

This year has brought many changes, but one of the most striking and talked about is the lightning fast development that has taken place in the field of artificial intelligence, or AI.

1:13.6

Almost overnight, it seems, we've constructed very sophisticated computer models that can write convincingly like a human, that can drive a car,

1:18.6

that can invest in the stock market, that can generate whole videos with a text command.

1:23.6

This invention is one of the most important and timely of our age and may shape our society as much as the last pivotal invention, the Internet has.

1:34.0

The American story is punctuated by such leaps in innovation.

1:38.3

As a country, we've produced ideas and inventions that have revolutionized the world around us,

1:43.9

from the airplane to the

1:45.3

telegraph, and now to ever new applications of AI.

1:49.9

And one might ask, where does all this innovation come from?

1:54.0

You could talk about free markets and free speech, and that's all well and good, that's

1:57.5

true.

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