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Originally Posted by sendler
Epstein's emphasis on human flourishing and it's relationship to energy availability that is reliable, cheap and safe is a very frighteningly logical counterpoint to the currently popular and under informed rhetoric of " just leave it in the ground".
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Any reduction in availability of world primary energy right now would bring a big reduction in standard of living and lifespan.
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It looks like fossil fuels have turned out to be the most expensive fuels in world history.We're on a path out of the Goldilock's zone because of them.
And Eptein's cognitive dissonance will end up historic as well.His greatest hero created the best renewable/buildable energy source ever invented,and ran his entire community off of it. Epstein should have wrote 'A Moral Case For Static Electricity.'
And the popular rhetoric that matters is 'don't burn it.'
Increased availability and combustion will lower all standards of living and shorten lifespans as people die early from elevated blood levels of cortisol coursing through their veins,stressed out about looming climate catastrophe,if not killed directly from events.
Hurricane Michael's already killed thirteen.