Hey folks, I just lost the draft of my post on Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

So let’s just go with a few quotes:

This book is about morality, about right and wrong. To me, the question of what to do about fossil fuels and any other moral issue comes down to: What will promote human life? What will promote human flourishing.

[W]hen we think about how fossil fuel use impacts climate livability, we are not asking: Are we taking a stable, safe climate and making it dangerous? But: Are we making our volatile, dangerous climate safer or more dangerous?

Many leading environmental thinkers, including those who predict fossil fuel catastrophe, hold as their standard of value what they call “pristine” nature or wilderness — nature unaltered by man.

“Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” This is the logical end of holding human nonimpact as your standard of value; the best way to achieve it is to do nothing at all, to not exist.

We don’t want to “save the planet” from human beings; we want to improve the planet for human beings.

Just go read it.

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