“Every day some family’s Charlie is dying because the right knowledge hasn’t yet been discovered, or the right technology hasn’t yet been developed. “I believe a lot of this knowledge and technology would already exist were it not for pervasive, insidious restrictions on every aspect of progress. In my field, energy, it is considered politically correct to call for drastic reductions in fossil fuel energy, which provides 87% of the world’s far-too-low energy use, in the name of empty promises that it will be replaced by unreliable solar and wind sources. “Every time we do something to slow down progress, someone suffers. Often you can’t point to that person. How do you know who couldn’t afford a safer car and died in a car accident as a result? How do you know who died because a life-saving drug was unnecessarily held up? How do you know who froze to death because the price of energy was too high? How do you know which babies died because progress was too slow? “Fortunately, our progress-to-date has been fast enough for Charlie. . . . for my friends and me, he will always remind us that progress is precious—and that we can never have too much.” — Alex Epstein
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:17:40 +0000
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