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#324 - Alex Epstein - Can Fossil Fuels Save The World?

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Acidification of the Seas, Coral Reefs Going to Hell

Oceans were much more neutral in the past. When you had explosions of life, ocean species deal with much more dramatic shifts in the p h than we're talking about. And also, some of the most prolific seas in the world are are the closest to neutral in the world. So i think it really is coming from this philosophical or religious perspective that we expected to be bad. It's like the philosophy and the framework is guiding this, and it's distorting science. There'e a lot of people doing good science on this, but that only works if If you're asking people to give you positive and negative side effects, and then integrate those with the benefits.

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