The US Energy Information Agency Expects US Energy Consumption to Rise 27 to 38 EJ by 2050.
Source: Distillation Columns with Multiple Phase Divisions: How They Improve Thermodynamic Efficiency and Decrease Energy Consumption (Lilian C. K. Biasi, Ana L. R. Romano, Roger J. Zemp, Matthias Heinkenschloss, Fabio R. M. Batista, and Antonio J. A. Meirelles Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2021 60 (43), 15690-15705.) (Subscription required.)
They obviously didn't get the memo composed by Amory Lovins in 1976 at EIA, that energy efficiency and so called "renewable energy" would save the world.
Of course, the EIA tracks data, not wishful thinking.
Don't worry, be happy, Amory is still proud of what he wrote; data doesn't matter.
Lovins and his fellow anti-nukes sure owned the nukes like me. We spent trillions more dollars on this planet on wind and solar than we did on nukes in this century.
We hit 420 ppm concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere in April of 2021, and are racing to 422 or more in April or May of 2022. In this, the century of worshipping the sun and worshipping the wind, the concentrations of this dangerous waste rose from 370.06 ppm (week beginning 12/31/2000) to 415.15 (Week beginning 01/03/2021).
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
