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The Push To Eliminate Fossil Fuels Is Hurting Poor People

Posted on AllSides April 20th, 2023
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OPINION

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...

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