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Fossil Future: The Epstein/Caplan/Hanson Conversation

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Climate Mastery Benefits of Fossil Fuels

Most people talking about fossil fuels. It's just about everyone does not factor in what I call the climate mastery benefits of fossil fuels. One of the main things we use fossil fuels for is to neutralize the massive amount of natural climate danger. And yet, there's a very significant greening side effect, which is overall very, clearly very positive. There's huge benefits of CO2 rising, even if there are big negatives as well. People don't talk seriously about that. That points out to a bias. And then there's this tendency to clearly exaggerate. Like when Al Gore talks about, you know, 20 foot C level rises and makes them seem imminent. Then you look

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