Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, shares “17 talking points” from his new book, Fossil Future. Here are a few (his emphasis, and footnotes to his sources are included):
- After 100 years of vigorous competition from alternatives, fossil fuels provide 80% of the world’s energy, including over 90% of the world’s transportation energy—and are growing.1
- Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy ever created.3
- Nuclear energy has become many times more expensive even though the raw material prices haven’t increased and the knowledge of how to produce nuclear energy efficiently has improved.4
- Despite claims that the world is “too hot,” cold-related deaths far exceed heat-related deaths.7
- Planetary warming is concentrated in colder parts of the Earth—it is not truly global.12