Energy Abundance Will Power Florida’s Future

Originally published by The Palm Beach Post

Picture a hospital in Miami during a hurricane. The storm rages outside, but inside the lights stay on, life-support machines run, surgeries continue, and newborns are kept warm and safe. Now, picture a hospital in rural Bangladesh during a routine power outage. The power fades, machines shut down, and patients wait in silence.

The difference in such a moment isn't medicine or skill - it's energy.

Reliable, affordable energy is the invisible force that separates hardship from hope, poverty from prosperity, and sometimes, life from death. Human progress over the last century is, in many ways, the story of energy. As we gained access to abundant power, lifespans increased, infant mortality plummeted, and billions were lifted out of poverty.

Yet today, a movement is pushing us to abandon the very energy sources that built the modern world – all in the name of “saving the planet.” This thinking gets the problem exactly backwards. If our goal is human flourishing, then what the world needs is more reliable energy, not less.

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