> Capping total energy usage is not realistic. It's never happened in human history. In a sense, it has happened, but not in the form of an explicit mandate bu

> Capping total energy usage is not realistic. It's never happened in human history. In a sense, it has happened, but not in the form of an explicit mandate but just due to pre-existing technological and economic trends. Here is a graph of "Primary Energy Consumption per capita" for various countries, showing that the EU, US, and Canada have all passed their peak: https://energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13705-018-0178-8/figures/3 https://energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...