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Peter Thiel challenges Alex Epstein on Fossil Future

Power Hour with Alex Epstein

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The Importance of Human Flourishing in Environmental Policy

The concept of human flourishing is used in the determination of rights in these kinds of environmental issues. The key to individual flourishing is is freedom of action within defines within defined spheres so the last thing you want is some dictator who arbitrarily gets to say on a case by case level oh this is what you need to flourish and it's your power to do that. I think for every political philosophy is a question of are you looking at it from a pro human way or an anti-human way and whatever your political philosophy is even if you're collectivist you should be looking at it in a pro-human way, he says.

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