SPOTLIGHT: Reliable, affordable energy makes everything else possible.
BIG PICTURE: In The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Alex Epstein documents the “incredibly strong correlation between fossil fuel use and life expectancy.” Over the past few decades, life spans in China, India, and elsewhere have surged while infant mortality has fallen.
Billions of people have “have gotten their first lightbulb, their first refrigerator, their first decent-paying job” and “their first year with clean drinking water.” All of this was made possible by fossil fuels.
As developing countries gain access to coal-fired electricity, they’re able to power hospitals, refrigerate food and medicine, install sanitation services, and build factories that supply jobs. They’re able to study after nightfall, and live in communities made safer by outdoor lighting.
Dependable access to gasoline enables the deployment of large machinery required to build and maintain reliable transportation systems. Those systems, in turn, enable more people to take advantage of newly-equipped hospitals, schools, and increased job opportunities.
Environmentalists worry that vulnerable individuals in poor countries will be harmed by climate change decades in the future. But fossil fuels are helping these countries to build more durable and resilient communities now.
When you exchange mud huts and tin shacks for dwellings made of concrete and steel, you’re more likely to survive whatever Nature throws at you. As Epstein points out, the number of people who perish due to climate-related events is now “fifty times lower than it was eighty years ago.”
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“Over the past few decades, life spans in China, India, and elsewhere have surged while infant mortality has fallen.”
That’s exactly right and the underlying reason for demonising those pesky “fossil fuels”. For starters, fossil fuels do not exist, secondly, the miniscule amount of carbon dioxide that those pesky “fossil fuels” have added to earth’s atmosphere has zero influence over neither temperatures nor climate change. Check the graphic on http://ilovemycarbondioxide.com/ and realise that stupidity reigns supreme and that fake news is readily accepted whilst the truth is readily ignored or even vilified.
But as many of us already know that radical greens want humans to go extinct they read Paul Ehrliches fake books The Population Bomb and The Population Explosion and deep ecologists who oppose Fracking and sread lies about it after all the banned DDT becuase of the lies and Junk Science from Rachael Carson and Silent Spring and they would rather you freeze to death these Eco-Nazis and Watermelons
Imagine the lives of these kids who’s main chore is to scrounge up a bit of cow dung vs the eco-anarchist’s flying around trying to line their pockets while preaching scary global warming bull shit .
Kids like these will be the first ones effected if green ugly get their way . Money sent to these turd world countries (as former Canadian Prime Minister refers to them ) will end up in something like the Clinton foundation or a Swiss bank account after the UN takes it’s commission .