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Energy Poverty and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
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A tale of two babies
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3 keys to fighting energy poverty
1. Value efficient energy industries
2. Liberate all energy industries
3. Promote individual freedom globally
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3 major causes of energy poverty
1. We undervalue energy.
2. We undervalue efficient energy industries.
3. We restrict the most efficient energy
industries.
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Cause 1:
We undervalue energy
abundance
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Energy abundance and human
flourishing
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What is energy abundance?
What is energy?
What does the energy industry do?
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4 underappreciated benefits of cheap,
plentiful, reliable energy
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Food
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Knowledge
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Clean water
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Climate safety
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The China & India Experiments
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***** China and India DATA
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Cause 2:
We undervalue the most
efficient energy industries.
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The truth about energy
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Jimmy Fallon makes the world’s best case…
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Every energy technology is a resource-intensive
process—some are much more resource-
intensive than others
• Mining
• Processing
• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Operation
• Maintenance
• Disposal
How resource intensive are solar and wind for
producing reliable energy for billions?
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The German experiment
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Cause 3:
We restrict the most efficient
energy industries
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Benefit of using vs. not using fossil fuels—more
access to more energy more years of life
added onto billions of people’s lives
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If we were forced to use
renewables/unreliables, billions would suffer
and die prematurely—and if we use more
fossil fuels, there is the potential to make
everyone’s lives better.
Yet no one seems to care too much…why?
If fossil fuels had a catastrophic climate
influence, people should be mourning the
prospect of inferior sources of energy, not
gleeful at it
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Solution: Liberate all energy industries,
enforce
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