Great book

More people need to read this book. As a science student I was on the anti impact framework as well or at least partly and tho that it is important to reduce CO2 emissions in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. I never tho that all these scientific evidence could be distorted this much because after all to my understanding science is there to find the objective truth about things and work towards human flourishing.
The lies, misguidance and bad policies we currently go through in the west on many different levels are very outrageous. And I hope people will at some point look at the energy bills and realize that a life in prosperity demands cheap and available energy from all possible sources.

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The degeneracy of the sustainability agenda

Alex really pulls the left with its eco-agenda off their playing field. Instead of discussing endlessly "the science", he instead highlights the anti-human moral framework that is so prevalent on the left.
Many critical minds that started to mistrust the state and the media the last few years still buy into the false dooms day predictions and support the sustainability agenda. I believe this book will help these people to get their facts and their moral compass back in order.

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important contribution

powerful description on our knowledge system. look up UN-efforts on sustainability for schools university. Will further cement the single sided view on such issues.

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Eye-opening

An eye-opening, provocative, comprehensive, well-structured and convincing attempt to diversify the one-sided debate about climate change and energy policy. A must read for everyone interested in the above topics - at least to get a different point of view.

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mind blowing new perspective

What a complete mind blowing view on the whole climate and fossil fuel topic. The human flourishing perspective changed my way of thinking about it drastically and I recommend it to every environmentalist.

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important contribution to the Debatte, but too one sided

the author Highlights how fossile fule fuled economic development has contributed to human flourishing in the past; and the risk a decline or slow down in economic development will have especially in the poor. A risk, we should avoid. He convincingly Highlights that there are realities in which we manage to stay below 2 degrees of warming, which are worse than Others realities in which we fail to do so.
However, He did not Show convincingly why a world in which we slowly Shift to a fully renewable fuled world would be worse than sticking with fossile fuels. In such a world, we could have the best of both worlds.
He Claims that researchers underestimate Progress in the Future, but then neglects any Progress WE have regarding solving the issues of renewable Energies we have now; e.g. in Battery Technologies.
Furthermore, he claima e.g. that the effect of CO2 on plant growth ist ignored. which ist wrong. It is considered in IPCC Reports and cited studies; but the effect is (in many scenarios) simply outweighed by adverse effect e.g. due to droughts or Heat.

In summary, the climate Debate is too one sided. but a one sided book is likely Not Shift the balance

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Highly relevant topic, great thoughts, poor format

I enjoyed the beginning of the book, because of its provocating, yet convincing approach about prioritising benefits over side effects of fossil fuels. An approach that would likely be considered trivial with regards to any other topic, but which has become successfully demonised in large parts of developed countries. Initially, it helped me that Epstein makes good use of his analytical capabilities to provide a philosophical approach which is largely unbiased by the mainstream narrative and its apocalyptic extremes.

Unfortunately, Epstein then choses to overwhelm the listener with an exceedingly complex, extremely repetitive and new nomenclature, all too often presented in the form of "lists" of only two or three "bullet points", rather than in a digestible narration. This might be okay in a printed book, but sounds completely inadequate in an audio book. Mid-way through the audio, I had to force myself to continue until its end, while I had forgotten almost half of the newly introduced nomenclature.

I would suggest to rather read the book and use a pen and sticky notes than listening to this audio book. The contents make the extra effort worthwhile, but the listening experience was tedious, to put it mildly.

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