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42. It's multiplication

Sun Oct 22, 2017, 09:36 PM

Oct 2017

energy use per person times number of people equals total energy used.

Right now we have energy use going up dramatically, especially in eastern and southern Asia and we have a population explosion going on in Africa and the Middle East.

The west's energy use isn't going up much if at all and its population isn't going up at all. If the whole world was just the west, we'd have energy consumption stable and population declining which wouldn't create a bad equation.

The solution isn't in the west cutting. Every little bit helps, but that's not where the equation breaks down.

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