In Fossil Future, Alex Epstein argues for the fundamental importance of energy to the modern economy, and to the future of human civilization on this planet. In this, he is correct. All economic activity depends on the oft-ignored assumption of available energy, specifically fossil energy. Mr. Epstein writes a paean to fossil fuels based on this fact, but his book demonstrates no specific knowledge of different fossil fuel products, nor their extraction, processing, characteristics, and uses. Remaining reserves are depleted, and the fossil products they contain lack the qualities that made conventional oil the engine of the global economy. These oversights cannot be reconciled with Mr. Epstein’s thesis that the fossil fuels of the future will power exponential growth.
Exhausted: The Real Fossil Future
Exhausted: The Real Fossil Future
Exhausted: The Real Fossil Future
In Fossil Future, Alex Epstein argues for the fundamental importance of energy to the modern economy, and to the future of human civilization on this planet. In this, he is correct. All economic activity depends on the oft-ignored assumption of available energy, specifically fossil energy. Mr. Epstein writes a paean to fossil fuels based on this fact, but his book demonstrates no specific knowledge of different fossil fuel products, nor their extraction, processing, characteristics, and uses. Remaining reserves are depleted, and the fossil products they contain lack the qualities that made conventional oil the engine of the global economy. These oversights cannot be reconciled with Mr. Epstein’s thesis that the fossil fuels of the future will power exponential growth.