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9/17/2015 About | Center for Industrial Progress http://industrialprogress.com/about/ 1/3 Blog Speaking Consulting About Contact About us Center for Industrial Progress is a forprofit thinktank seeking to bring about a new industrial revolution. We believe that human beings have the untapped potential to radically improve our lives by using technology to improve the planet. Our Mission Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is a forprofit thinktank seeking to bring about a new industrial revolution. We believe that human beings have the untapped potential to radically improve our lives by using technology to improve the planet across a multitude of industries: mining, manufacturing, agriculture, chemistry, and energy. Every individual has the potential for a longer, happier, healthier, safer, more comfortable, more meaningful, more opportunity filled life. The keys to a new industrial revolution are a new industrial philosophy, a new industrial policy, and a new approach to communication. Show more Philosophically, the socalled environmentalist movement has put forward the myth that a better environment means “saving” the planet from human industry. CIP shows that a better environment means *improving* the planet *through* human industry. Politically, the socalled environmentalist movement has put forward the myth that a better

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About us

Center for Industrial Progress is a for­profit think­tank seeking to bring about a new industrialrevolution. We believe that human beings have the untapped potential to radically improve ourlives by using technology to improve the planet.

Our Mission

Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is a for­profit think­tank seeking to bring about a newindustrial revolution. We believe that human beings have the untapped potential to radicallyimprove our lives by using technology to improve the planet across a multitude of industries:mining, manufacturing, agriculture, chemistry, and energy. Every individual has the potentialfor a longer, happier, healthier, safer, more comfortable, more meaningful, more opportunity­filled life.

The keys to a new industrial revolution are a new industrial philosophy, a new industrial policy,and a new approach to communication.

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Philosophically, the so­called environmentalist movement has put forward the myth that abetter environment means “saving” the planet from human industry. CIP shows that a betterenvironment means *improving* the planet *through* human industry.

Politically, the so­called environmentalist movement has put forward the myth that a better

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environment means authoritarian control by environmental bureaucrats who prioritize slothsover human beings. CIP shows that a better environment means clear, scientific laws thatprotect both the right to develop and the right to preserve clean air and water.

In communication, the so­called environmentalist movement has historically taken the moralhigh ground against industry by pretending that minimizing the “footprint” of industry” is anideal that will bring about a better, healthier world. CIP’s aspirational approach tocommunication shows that the real ideal is industrial progress, the progressive improvementof the planet through technology and development–and has inspired thousands to change theway they think about industries such as energy, mining, and agriculture.

A crucial part of our mission is sharing our uniquely positive ideas and tactics with industrythrough training programs that inspire their employees and empower their communicationsteams. Only if industry starts to appreciate and articulate its true value, both economic andenvironmental, can we liberate industry from authoritarian government and bring about thenext industrial revolution.

Leadership

Alex Epstein, President and Founder

Alex Epstein is the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and anexpert on energy and industrial policy. Called “most original thinker of theyear” by political commentator John McLaughlin, he champions the use offossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas and has changed the waythousands of people think about energy. He has risen to prominence as the nation’s leadingfree­market energy debater, promoting a philosophy that is “anti­pollution but pro­development.” He challenges many popularly held ideas about energy, industry, and theenvironment, including the big picture benefits (and costs) of fossil fuels and nuclear power.He draws on cutting­edge research and original insights to offer an alternate perspective onthe energy debate and shares eye­opening thoughts into how fossil fuels and technology willimprove the lives of people – safely, cleanly, and effectively – for years to come.

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Mr. Epstein’s extensive media experience includes hundreds of radio and TV appearances.Mr. Epstein has spoken at dozens of universities, including Duke, Berkeley, UCLA, andNorthwestern, as well as a diverse range of organizations, from The Federalist Society to theNAACP to the American Coal Council.

Mr. Epstein is an alumnus of Duke University, where he studied philosophy and computerscience, and a former fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

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Eric Dennis, PhD, Senior Fellow

Eric Dennis, Ph.D., Physics, studied at Caltech, Princeton, and UCSB.His graduate work involved the theory of quantum computers andsimulating quantum systems. Transitioning to quantitative finance, he hasbuilt derivatives models on trading desks at Goldman Sachs, MorganStanley, and Swiss Reinsurance, where he pioneered a unified, state­of­the­art modeling framework for portfolio credit derivatives. He currently works in assetmanagement at a major insurance company. His experience in finance, complemented byindependent study of monetary economics, provides a unique combination of hands­onknowledge and theoretical insight to assess current macroeconomic issues. His interestsinclude questions of central planning, free banking, the use and abuse of mathematicalmodels, and the scientific fundamentals of energy.

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