Newt Gingrich. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein
b"Newt Gingrich. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein\\xa0 \\nNewt's World\\nAlex Epstein on \\u201cFossil Future\\u201d\\n\\xa0Jun 03 2022\\xa0\\xa0\\nThe debate about climate change many times fails to mention the reasons we use fossil fuels in the first place. Policies like the \\u201cGreen New Deal\\u201d really remind us that the wealthier countries can adopt green policies as a fashionable trend. But in reality, with the growth in global population, particularly in China and India, it\\u2019s going to require us to think of new ways to approach our energy needs. Newt\\u2019s guest is Alex Epstein. His new book, \\u201cFossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas \\u2013 Not Less\\u201d is out now.\\nAbout the book-\\nFossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein\\xa0 May 24, 2022\\nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy\\nFor over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world\\u2019s poorest people.\\n\\xa0And contrary to what we hear from media \\u201cexperts\\u201d about today\\u2019s \\u201crenewable revolution\\u201d and \\u201cclimate emergency,\\u201d reality has proven Epstein right:\\n \\xa0 Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast\\u2014while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts.\\n Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low.\\n Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development.\\n\\xa0What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive \\u201chuman flourishing framework\\u201d to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects\\u2014including climate impacts\\u2014for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at \\u201cclimate mastery,\\u201d and establishing \\u201cenergy freedom\\u201d policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential.\\nToday\\u2019s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the \\u201canti-impact framework\\u201d\\u2014a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media\\u2019s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate."