Things are getting more energy efficient and in his chart it shows per capita flat or trending down. But unless population growth is also flat than overall is still growing.
That’s not to say energy use overall will never go down (it did during 2020 when everything shut down) but it hasn’t yet.
https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
Things are getting more energy efficient and in his chart it shows per capita flat or trending down. But unless population growth is also flat than overall is still growing.
That’s not to say energy use overall will never go down (it did during 2020 when everything shut down) but it hasn’t yet.
Edit: words are hard.