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Alex Epstein: Unpacking the Energy Crisis, Nuclear, ESG & Bitcoin Mining

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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Are We Having a Global Supply Chain Crisis?

Poverty has gone from four out of 10 on the planet. Extreme poverty to one out of 10. However, three billion people still live on less electricity than American one American refrigerator. And I would argue that here in the US, I think a lot of people would say poverty's increasing because we're crushing the middle class. The rich are getting a lot richer. But my whole argument is, if you take away freedom in general, and the freedom to use fossil fuels in particular, you can have regression. It's not this polyana view that you get progress no matter how irrational you are. Because if you restrict the freedom that progress depends on, then you get stagnation, and then

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