The Push To Eliminate Fossil Fuels Is Hurting Poor People
Climate Change,Earth Day,Sustainability,Fossil Fuels,Polarization,Wealth Inequality,Inequality,Economy And Jobs,Poverty,Culture
Earth Day is Saturday! Hooray?
"Saving humanity from the climate crisis," says EarthDay.org, requires us to "push away from the dirty fossil fuel economy."
Sounds logical.
But my latest video explains why doing that is cruel to poor people.
"Three billion people in the world still use less electricity than a typical refrigerator," explains Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. If they're going to have "their first well-paying jobs…their first consistent supply of clean water…a modern life…that's going to depend on fossil fuels."
But the greens say we have a better replacement: wind and solar power.
So I push back at Epstein: "Solar is getting cheaper all the time. It's already cheaper than fossil fuels."
"When we look at solar and wind around the world," he answers, "it always correlates to rising prices and declining reliability. Why? Because solar and wind are intermittent. At any time, they can go near zero."
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