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Episode 25 | Alex Epstein

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Are You the Rigorous Thinker That Id Suggestioned You Were?

Alex Castellanos says the way we're taught to think about this makes no sense. Nobody can argue that it makes sense to eliminate c o two omissions at all costs, he argues. And yet that's clearly what we're pursuing in the realm of energy and its having small version of what could happen,. but deadly costs around the world. We have a third of the world still using wood and animal dung; six billion people who use an average of one-tenth as much electricity as they would if there was no need for fossil fuel. So cost effective energy is essential to human flourishing because it allows us to use machines to make ourselves prosperous versus unproductive.

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