On this month’s Power Hour, I interview Robert Zubrin, author of “Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism.” I discovered Dr. Zubrin’s book two weeks ago, and have since read it twice. It is a fascinating history of the theory and practice of what Zubrin calls “anti-humanism”–the belief that “human beings are pathogens whose …
The Shale Revolution: Fueling U.S. Productivity
In Fracing Amazing: The Story of the Eagle Ford Shale, I explained how innovations in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing of once-useless source rock unlocked the Eagle Ford Shale formation. Here are some other developments in the growing Shale Revolution in oil and gas production. Natural gas production is so prolific that the price of this clean form of energy …
Debunking “Renewable” Energy, Promoting Progressive Energy
Check out my new post at MasterResource, “Progressive Energy vs. ‘Renewable’ Energy.” The idea/ideal of “renewable energy” is the source of an enormous amount of bad thinking about energy–it places our focus on hypothetical energy sources with the longest hypothetical duration, rather than effective energy sources that can provide cheap, plentiful, reliable energy in the here and now. I think …
An Unnatural Amount of Happiness — Why I Celebrate Transforming the Earth
One of the great joys of life is those hours with loved ones that are so serene that time just seems to stop. A few weeks ago, I had that feeling during a long-overdue reunion with two of my dearest friends. We talked about everything and nothing, we made each other think and made each other laugh, but most of …
Earth Day – A Reminder of the Benefits of Industrial Progress
It’s Earth Day – a day to think about the wealth of potential resources that the Earth holds -resources that man has transformed so that the lives of humans could be better than ever. I know, Earth Day was devised by environmentalists to make people feel guilty about burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees. But have you ever thought …
Q & A on Green Blackout plus How to Handle Eco-Hecklers
Watch the Q & A from Alex’s latest talk, “Green Blackout”, and see how he calmly handles eco-hecklers. Q&A Part 1: http://youtu.be/dnZ0jxzycT8 Q&A Part 2: http://youtu.be/Tqg6f0t7Iuk Q&A Part 3: http://youtu.be/SPcnJHCCVvM
The Green Blackout – Alex Epstein at UW-Stevens Point
From rolling blackouts to a decreasing standard of living, from increased famine to deadlier storms – a lack of dependable and cheap energy poses a greater risk to our civilization than the worst financial crises ever could. Alex Epstein explains how a green economy poses a threat to our safety and our way of life – and how plentiful, reliable, cheap …
Watch “Fracking Amazing”
Last week at Penn State, I spoke to Young Americans for Freedom about why I think fracking is amazingly positive, economically and environmentally. I’ll post the Q&A on Wednesday. Want me to speak to your group? Email me at alex at alexepstein dot com.
Power Hour: Pierre Desrochers on Capitalism and Our Environment
On this month’s Power Hour, I interview Pierre Desrochers of the University of Toronto. Since later this month many people will be celebrating Earth Day, I wanted to expose listeners to one of the world’s leading researchers on the real, positive relationship between capitalism and our environment. Dr. Desrochers is a human encyclopedia on all things industrial progress, and this …