sendler2112
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billvon said:Energy USED can be sorta correlated in that way. Energy EXPENDED cannot be.sendler2112 said:Economy. energy, population, are correlated nearly 1:1:1.
Until now total energy PRODUCTION has been correlated with population. World per capita energy production has continually increased over the last 100 years as billions of poor people attempt to improve their wellbeing. I would hope that this one simple graphic would make it very obvious to even the most adamant green energy proponent why "just leave it in the ground" is not so simple. 3 billion people still survive by burning wood and dung for heat and cooking. They will be the ones that have to change their way of life the least as total per capita access to energy fades back down over the next 100 years.
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GDP is probably more closely correlated to useful energy CONSUMPTION now that efficiencies from electrification are starting to creep in.