Fossil future : why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas--not less
Epstein, Alex, 1980-2022
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"The 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 For 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 unrivalled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right: Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast-while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. Fact: Fossil-fuelled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. 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-fuelled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects-including climate impacts-for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"-a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's 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"--
Main title:
Author:
Epstein, Alex, 1980-, author
Imprint:
New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2022]©2022
Collation:
xii, 468 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A note to readers of the moral case for fossil fuelsIgnoring benefitsCatastrophizing side effectsThe anti-impact frameworkHow important is cost-effective energy?Our unnaturally livable fossil fueled worldThe unique and expanding cost-effectiveness of fossil fuelsCan alternatives rapidly substitute for fossil fuels?The crucial variable of climate masteryThe challenge of finding objective science on CO2's climate impactsThe likely impacts of rising CO2 levelsMaximizing flourishing through energy freedomReframing the conversation.
ISBN:
9780593420416 (hbk)9780593420416
Dewey class:
662.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
519330
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 662.6 EPS | Available |