Un futuro fósil

The media bombard us day in and day out with apocalyptic and tremendous predictions about the irreversible "climate emergency". However, despite the slogans of the supposed experts in ecological transition and environmental activists, reality has ended up agreeing with the philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein. For more than a decade, he has argued that any negative impact of fossil fuels on the environment is far outweighed by the benefits of their use for human development, including their ability to provide reliable and cheap energy to billions of people. of people around the world, especially the most vulnerable. Fossil fuels have not only brought poverty to an all-time low: they remain the dominant energy source and their use is increasing, while renewables fall short of all expectations and prove to be an expensive and inefficient technology. Epstein argues that while fossil fuels have contributed to 1 degree warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at record lows thanks precisely to its development.