Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong For decades environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a selfdestructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time by every measure of human wellbeing from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety life has been getting better and better. How can this be The explanation energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels is that we usually hear only one side of the story. Were taught