I think as a civilisation we should be putting 20% of global resources into energy research. Every leap we've made has been preceded by increased energy. Wheth

I think as a civilisation we should be putting 20% of global resources into energy research. Every leap we've made has been preceded by increased energy. Whether that's the tools that allowed us to be more efficient with energy when hunting etc, agriculture that gave enough energy to sustain large work forces or the technologies that have created enough energy to shift production away from human labor. If we really want to progress as a civilisation I believe we should be primarily chasing energy production increases which are not damaging. The rest will just happen as people aren't constrained by the previous energy limits and can do things that were previously not viable.