"...it's fundamentally poverty, and the solution is to become rich — and that requires using fossil fuels.”

“It's a big mistake on the part of a lot of the media to just focus whenever there's a poor country that suffers from anything that's connected to climate to say, ‘Oh, it's climate change. The solution is get rid of fossil fuels.’ No, it's fundamentally poverty, and the solution is to become rich — and that requires using fossil fuels.”

~ Alex Epstein from his Q+A with students at the John Locke Institute