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Moral case for fossil fuels
What’s in it for me? Learn why, despite calls to 
the contrary, we should continue to use fossil 
fuels.
It’s a message that’s been drilled into our heads: 
fossil fuels are bad. Burning coal pollutes the 
atmosphere, causing the planet to warm; 
extracting and transporting oil leads to spills and 
potentially catastrophic environmental effects.
Yet is this really true? These blinks suggest 
otherwise.
You’ll learn that not only is our use of fossil fuels 
beneficial, there is, a least for now, really no 
alternative to coal and oil. The development and 
use of so-called green energy, whether wind 
farms, biomass or solar, is today just too 
unreliable and too expensive to meet the world’s 
energy needs.
In the following blinks, you’ll discover
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How many people have actually died as 
a result of nuclear power;
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How fossil fuel use leads to less climate-
related deaths; and
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Why we can thank fossil fuels for 
helping curve malnutrition.
Fossil fuels have been crucial to human life, 
helping to curb hunger by advancing 
agriculture.
Everyday you hear that fossil fuels such as coal, 
natural gas and oil are bad for the environment.
So how could you support the contrarian 
opinion, that fossil fuels are actually good?
As a society, we owe much credit for our current 
prosperity to fossil fuels, as the use of these 
fuels have brought tremendous benefits.
Fossil fuels have had a hand in combatting 
global malnutrition, for example, the use of 
which 
basically 
revolutionized 
modern 
agriculture.
Methane-based fertilizers and electric irrigation 
systems that run on coal have allowed farmers 
to grow much more food. Oil-powered 
mechanization has increased the amount of 
farmland that can be cultivated per worker, and 
oil-powered transportation systems have allowed 
us to deliver food to more people.
You also might not realize just how ubiquitous 
fossil fuels are. There are at least 50 things in 
the room you’re in that are made from oil. The 
insulation in your walls; the carpet under your 
feet; the computer screen you’re looking at; and 

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even the chair you’re sitting on, were all made 
with oil.
Fossil fuels are also the only resource that gives 
us cheap, plentiful and reliable energy. For a 
product to be inexpensive for a customer, every