I don't need to argue that standard of living has nothing to do with energy consumption, it is self evident. Leave your air conditioning or heating on for 24 ho

I don't need to argue that standard of living has nothing to do with energy consumption, it is self evident. Leave your air conditioning or heating on for 24 hours for no reason, or keep your engine running while in a tail back. Wonder at how your standard of living has not improved one iota. I propose improving standards of living by people being more efficient. QED this is not spinning a make believe story. Your figures for energy consumption also back my point up, unless european standards of living are lower than the US because of power consumption. It is the reckless waste I am lobbying against. We are not just getting by. I never stated that there were painless or negative side effect free power sources, you are the one who stated it was the most painless way forward. The additional power sources you are advocating are nuclear. I said nothing about eating animals. The whole universe isn't trying to do anything. When the power sources you speak of are consumed by your ideal life form, is it going to consume itself? Have you ever heard that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes form? Contributing to as animals do, against directly causing like you advocate your ideal form doing, are different notions.