Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-05-22
Chris Williamson & Alex Epstein: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #324
Can Fossil Fuels Save The World? - Alex Epstein - #324
Alex Epstein is an energy theorist, the founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress and an author. During any discussion about fossil fuels, the focus only ever seems to be on the negative side effects, but what about the positives?
Alex Epstein recommended The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand and Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall. Chris Williamson recommended The Precipice by Toby Ord.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution
Recommended“and there was very explicitly it was very explicit that the anti-capitalist left needed a new cause as communism was collapsing”
Where to get it
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Where Is My Flying Car?
Recommended“but like as this guy points out in this really good book where's my i think it's called where's my flying car by this guy named jay storz hall a really good book like he points out imagine how much people would pay to make their climate like california's climate”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
“and as i tell in moral case for fossil fuels like what that means if you haven't ever lived it or seen it”
Plugged Fossil Future
“i mean i have some headlines in my next book fossil future which um it's not out now”
Plugged The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
“by the way i just sorry one note to interrupt this is a temporary thing but do not buy the revised moral case for fossil fuels on amazon because it's a fake book so don't do that”
Plugged The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
“thank you for coming on the moral case for fossil fuels”