> I would love renewable or fusion to cover all our needs, and keep my comfortable life as it is today I've been reading Jason Hickel's book "Less is More" [1]

> I would love renewable or fusion to cover all our needs, and keep my comfortable life as it is today I've been reading Jason Hickel's book "Less is More" [1], which talks a bit about energy use, in general, and how it must be reduced, regardless of what technologies we wind up with. And one of his points is examining how much energy is just flat-out wasted. ~50% of food is just wasted, for example—whether because it's ugly, or left in a refrigerator too long, and rots. Think about how most American cities are designed, and how it's just normal for most Americans to own and drive personal vehicles for hours each day. Those resources and the energy needed to extract those resources is largely just unnecessarily wasted. Consider countries like Costa Rica, Finland, Taiwan, etc., where quality of life is better than in the US. Life expectancy is higher. Infant mortality is lower. Education is better. And they need a tiny fraction of the energy the U.S. does. Clearly there's room for a lot of improvement with how we use energy. [1] https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more