Coal, oil and gas, are truly modernising forces, lifting billions out of agrarian poverty – powering machines and driving industrialization. People called on fossil fuels, when they should be called hydrocarbon heroes.

Access to reliable electricity provide an escape route for the impoverished, and hope for a less miserable future.

Watch villagers in the Third World scrounging for twigs and dung to cook their meals over in an unlit hut, and you’ll soon understand why the world’s poorest are screaming for coal generated power and gas for heating and cooking.

Far from coal, oil and gas killing (as the eco-lunatics claim), that trio is all that stands between us and a grim and grinding form of poverty.

Alex Epstein lays out the truth about how coal, oil and gas continue to deliver warmth, light and power, all day, every day, for billions of people.

Fossils Fuels: The Big Picture
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