Humans have been adapting to nature BY SUFFERING MAJOR HARDSHIP for all of history. No, cheap energy is not "essential." It's essential to living like a subur

Humans have been adapting to nature BY SUFFERING MAJOR HARDSHIP for all of history. No, cheap energy is not "essential." It's essential to living like a suburban American, but when you see Europeans living more comfortably than Americans, while consuming far less energy, that ought to give you pause. It also should give you pause to notice how "essential" it is for the sea not to force you to relocate, something global warming is slowly doing to hundreds of millions of people.