Major countries are led by popular demands. Minor countries as well. Vast overuse of energy resources is a pattern intertwined with modern life, from housing t

Major countries are led by popular demands. Minor countries as well. Vast overuse of energy resources is a pattern intertwined with modern life, from housing to transportation to food to recreation. The people demand having a vehicle with more than 100hp at their whim. Now picture a herd of 100 horses for every person on Earth. It is political suicide to propose cutting down to ecological sustainable levels of 1 horse per person. That's before we take in account the population explosion of 5-10-20x compared to pre-industrial levels. Not sure where you even begin implementing policies to reduce the population levels to ecological sustainable levels. As a species, we are simply incapable to comprehend that the way out of poverty is intelligent frugality. Instead, we attempt to brute force our way. The effort needed to fall back into an ecological sustainable band far surpasses WW2, and no one wants to hear about the actual costs. Nothing will change until mother Nature will do the change for us. The hard way.