Power Hour with Alex Epstein

Rupert Darwall on The Unscientific and Suicidal Corporate Net-Zero Movement

Jan 14, 2021

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Rupert Darwall, I'm a Senior Fellow at the Rule Foundation.

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The One Point Five Report Is Ideological

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The Chinese Communist Party Will Put at Risk the Growth of the Chinese Economy?

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Introduction

5min

Green Energy - What's Happening in the U.K.?

5min

The Effect of Renewables on the Energy Prices

2min

Industrial Energy Consumption

2min

Is There a Change in the Definition of Energy Poverty?

3min

Climate Change and Public Health

2min

The Greens Want Very Dense Cities, You Know?

2min

What's the Origin of Net Zero?

5min

Is There a Cost Benefit Analysis?

2min

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Does the I Pc C Report Use These Numbers?

2min

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The Green Morality of Thou Shalt Not Impact the Planet

2min

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The One Point Five Report Is Ideological

4min

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Is Wall Street a Threat to the Environment?

4min

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The Real Cost of Achieving Net Zero in the World?

2min

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The Chinese Communist Party Will Put at Risk the Growth of the Chinese Economy?

2min

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De Carbonization

4min

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Do We Really Want Our Corporations Mono Nically Focused on One Thing?

2min

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Rupert Darwall, I'm a Senior Fellow at the Rule Foundation.

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Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

3min

On this episode of Power Hour Alex Epstein interviews energy/environment researcher Rupert Darwall, author of The Age of Global Warming and Green Tyranny, on why the corporate “net-zero” movement is unscientific and suicidal.

Here’s some of what they cover:
- Where the net-zero-by-2050 and its accompanying 1.5 degrees C target came from. Hint: It’s not a scientific origin.
- How even small steps toward “net-zero” are harming citizens and industry in the UK.
- The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) religious focus on minimizing human impact on the planet instead of maximizing human flourishing on the planet.
- How the IPCC evades the amazing improvement in human life over the past two centuries and fossil fuels’ fundamental role in it.
- How the IPCC doesn’t seriously address the costs of net-zero policies.
- Why certain elements of Wall Street find “net-zero“ so compelling.

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