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About Alex Epstein
In 2013, Alex Epstein ignited a national conversation by publishing The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, not as a polemic, but as a meticulously argued challenge to the prevailing environmental narrative, grounded in energy poverty data from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He founded the Center for Industrial Progress to advance what he calls 'human flourishing ethics': evaluating energy systems by their measurable impact on human life expectancy, infant mortality, and access to refrigeration, clean water, and reliable electricity. Unlike most climate communicators, Epstein deliberately avoids modeling or atmospheric chemistry; instead, he dissects how energy density, grid stability, and mineral intensity shape real-world development trade-offs, e.g., why Kenya’s 2022 geothermal expansion displaced coal only after decades of underinvestment in transmission infrastructure. His congressional testimony in 2021 focused not on CO₂ targets but on the 2.6 billion people still cooking over open fires, and why modernizing energy access requires scaling dispatchable power, not just intermittent generation.
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- “How does energy density explain why Germany’s Energiewende increased coal use?”
- “What data convinced you that ‘renewables-first’ policies worsen energy poverty?”
- “Why do you reject the term ‘climate change denier’ as a category error?”
- “Can you walk me through the material inputs needed for one MWh of offshore wind vs. nuclear?”