Jun 17, 2024
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)