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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
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.
Guillermo Gonzalez is an astronomer and research scientist who writes in the areas of astrobiology, intelligent design, and stellar spectroscopy. He also co-authored “The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.”
