Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate

Fossil fuels help people live longer, travel farther, drink cleaner water, and breathe cleaner air. Yet governments work to outlaw them as the green agenda ignores these benefits. Pictured: Technicians work on wind turbine blades. Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images

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Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and more costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide.