The problem with efficiency is that it's usually not tied to reduction. We need people to have more efficient buildings and to heat and cool them less. We need

The problem with efficiency is that it's usually not tied to reduction. We need people to have more efficient buildings and to heat and cool them less. We need LED lighting with no more lighting. So, https://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/are-we-using-less-energy-because-led-lighting-or-more.html https://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/are-we-using-le... Put simply: INDUCED DEMAND Just like roads or computer hardware (every improvement in hardware can get eaten up by people no longer caring about optimizing software efficiency or modest file sizes: nobody needs their cute family videos to be 4k HD etc)… we can easily use up ALL the gains if we are let to just do that. We use more efficient building technology to support homes being larger and more luxurious than we need. Defeats the whole purpose. We need to internalize the costs. Heavy taxes on the source of pollution rather than subsidizing the clean-up or the use. If energy gets MUCH MUCH more expensive, people WILL upgrade to efficient tech and keep minimizing their use of it.