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he could talk to me easily, he kept chewing on his lip, saying nothing.
“We are told that rising CO2 levels will cause a “sixth mass extinction”—a species extinction so devastating that we literally won’t be able to live. Given that previous mass extinctions involved phenomena that blocked out massive amounts of light and warmth, like the giant asteroid that left a ninety-three-mile wide, twelve-mile-deep crater 66 million years ago in what is now Mexico, there is an incredibly high bar to claim that an increase in a warming and fertilizing gas will cause mass extinction.”
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
“Yet, perhaps unexpectedly, investment appraisal can teach valuable lessons about the damage caused by government intervention, lessons that would otherwise fall outside the scope of a course on investments or corporate finance.”
― Austrian Economics In Contemporary Business Applications: Think Better, Think Austrian
― Austrian Economics In Contemporary Business Applications: Think Better, Think Austrian
“It’s one thing to be shown a supply and demand graph and told that minimum wage increases can destroy the viability of a business: it’s quite another to see the NPV of a business disappear at the press of a button, simply by increasing the minimum wage by a dollar or two.”
― Austrian Economics In Contemporary Business Applications: Think Better, Think Austrian
― Austrian Economics In Contemporary Business Applications: Think Better, Think Austrian
“Given the term “ocean acidification,” you’d expect current pH levels to be well under 7. But in fact, mainstream estimates of the average pH of our current oceans are about 8.1—estimated to have declined from 8.2 in preindustrial times—very much in the alkaline range. Thus we are witnessing very slow ocean “neutralization,” not “acidification”—acidification is a completely unscientific term used to scare us.”
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
“the mainstream knowledge system, especially its disseminators and evaluators, is fundamentally distorted by the anti-impact framework, which causes it to consistently ignore fossil fuels’ fundamental benefits to human flourishing and to catastrophize fossil fuels’ thus far masterable side-effects. Its catastrophizing includes, as we saw in chapter 2 and chapter 4, wildly and negatively distorting the various environmental side-effects of fossil fuels—including by elevating the minority of specialists with the most extreme negative views to the status of designated experts. And in the previous chapter we saw pervasive climate mastery denial that makes all catastrophe predictions we hear from our knowledge system suspect.”
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
― Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
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