Yes, my point is that many green advocates / leftists mistakenly think that per capita energy usage will go down, and they jump and get angry at any increased energy usage, including explicitly green energy (see people flipping out about ai datacenters signing green energy contracts).
My point is that once energy usage is decoupled from emissions there is no reason for it to decrease, so it will skyrocket as it was doing before our growing awareness of climate change, so western governments should be focusing on building out excessive seeming levels of clean electricity generation.
Yup, focusing on energy use misses the forest for the trees. The focus should be on net CO2 output, and as long as that’s trending downward, we’re making progress.
Yes, my point is that many green advocates / leftists mistakenly think that per capita energy usage will go down, and they jump and get angry at any increased energy usage, including explicitly green energy (see people flipping out about ai datacenters signing green energy contracts).
My point is that once energy usage is decoupled from emissions there is no reason for it to decrease, so it will skyrocket as it was doing before our growing awareness of climate change, so western governments should be focusing on building out excessive seeming levels of clean electricity generation.
Yup, focusing on energy use misses the forest for the trees. The focus should be on net CO2 output, and as long as that’s trending downward, we’re making progress.