Alex Epstein

A defense of the fossil-fuel industry argues that it can help the planet through developments that promote safety and quality while adapting energy sources that are affordable, plentiful, and reliable on a global scale.

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

A professional TV writer provides an authoritative, insider's guide to what it takes to become a television writer, furnishing helpful information on the entire process of creating a television series, how to write an episode and develop interesting characters, how to construct dialogue, and how to sell a script. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Thinking Inside the Box

Crafty TV Writing

After her father is killed by Uter Pendragon, Morgan Le Fay is exiled to Ireland where she longs for revenge and learns the craft of magic.

The Circle Cast

Un libro que replantea todo lo que creías saber sobre los combustibles y el futuro del medio ambiente Los medios de comunicación nos bombardean día sí y día también con predicciones apocalípticas y tremendistas sobre la irreversible «emergencia climática». Sin embargo, y pese a las consignas de los supuestos expertos en transición ecológica y los activistas medioambientales, la realidad ha acabado dándole la razón al filósofo y experto en energía Alex Epstein. Durante más de una década, ha defendido que cualquier impacto negativo de los combustibles fósiles en el medio ambiente se ve superado con creces por los beneficios que reporta su uso para el desarrollo humano, incluida su capacidad para proporcionar energía fiable y barata a miles de millones de personas en todo el mundo, especialmente a las más vulnerables. Los combustibles fósiles no sólo han llevado la pobreza a un mínimo histórico:siguen siendo la fuente de energía dominante y su uso se incrementa, mientras que las energías renovables defraudan todas las expectativas y se muestran como una tecnología cara e ineficiente. Epstein argumenta que, si bien la energía fósil ha contribuido al calentamiento de 1 grado en los últimos 170 años, las muertes relacionadas con el clima están en mínimos históricos gracias, precisamente, a su desarrollo. En Un futuro fósil, Epstein aplica su distintivo «marco de desarrollo humano» para afirmar que también las generaciones venideras disfrutarán de los beneficios de los combustibles fósiles. El camino hacia el progreso humano global, sostiene, pasa por una combinación de más combustibles fósiles con una mejor comprensión del clima, y por establecer políticas de «libertad energética» que permitan que la energía nuclear y otras alternativas verdaderamente prometedoras alcancen todo su potencial a largo plazo.

Por qué el progreso global de la humanidad requiere más petróleo, más carbón y más gas natural, no menos

Un futuro fósil

Now revised and updated--from the New York Times bestselling author, a contrarian cost-benefit analysis that will make you question everything you thought you knew about fossil fuels. For decades we've been told that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, life has been getting better and better by every measure of human well-being, from access to clean water to climate safety. How can this be? In this timely and necessary book, energy expert Alex Epstein argues that we've only heard one side of the story. Today's climate activists and environmental pundits focus solely on the side effects of fossil fuels but completely ignore their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. Drawing on original insights and cutting-edge research, Epstein shows that most of what we've been told about fossil fuels is a myth. For instance... Myth: Fossil fuels are making the climate unlivable. Truth: Fossil fuels haven't taken a naturally safe climate and made it dangerous; they've taken a naturally dangerous climate and made it safer than ever. Myth: Solar and wind can replace fossil fuels. Truth: Sun and wind are unreliable and always need backup from a reliable source - almost always fossil fuels. Myth: Fossil fuels are hurting the developing world. Truth: Fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world--including their ability to adapt to a changing climate. Now fully updated with the latest data and addressing recent controversies from "peak oil demand" to the Green New Deal, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels is sure to challenge your assumptions.

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Revised Edition

The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right: Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.

Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

Fossil Future

The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made. Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not only to offer a successful screenwriter's tricks of the trade, but to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that the "dialogue is flat," or "the hero isn't likeable." Fresh, provocative, and funny, Alex Epstein diagnoses problem that other screenwriting books barely address, and answers questions they rarely ask, like "Why is it sometimes dangerous to know your characters too well before you start writing," or "Why does your script have to be so much better than the awful pictures that get made every day?" As a development executive who has accepted and rejected countless screenplays, and a produced screenwriter himself, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most important question of all: "Is this a movie?" A crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes to get their movie made.

Writing Movies That Get Made

Crafty Screenwriting

Provides advice for aspiring screenwriters on how to write scripts that will be accepted, not rejected, by Hollywood executives.

Durante décadas, hemos oído una y otra vez que utilizar combustibles fósiles es una adicción autodestructiva que acabará con nuestro planeta. Pero, al mismo tiempo, según todos los datos sobre bienestar humano, éste no ha dejado de mejorar. ¿Cómo es posible? Lo que ocurre, como sostiene en La cuestión moral de los combustibles fósiles el experto en energía Alex Epstein, es que solemos escuchar sólo una versión de la historia. Nos describen la parte negativa de los combustibles fósiles, sus riesgos y efectos colaterales, pero no la positiva: su capacidad única para ofrecer energía barata y fiable a un mundo donde habitan 7.000 millones de personas. Este hecho, la posibilidad del acceso universal a una energía asequible y funcional, tiene implicaciones morales en las que rara vez pensamos. Porque la energía permite mejorar todos los aspectos de la vida. Basándose en las últimas investigaciones, y con un brillante despliegue de ideas originales y rompedoras, Epstein desnuda todos los mitos que, interesadamente, rodean a los combustibles fósiles. Y afirma que, pese su demonización, estos no sólo deben usarse, sino defenderse y considerarse una herramienta para transformar y mejorar nuestras vidas.

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