It seems like these things come up when someone has a axe to grind. Why do we use energy for anything? Because we want to do things. How much energy do we use

It seems like these things come up when someone has a axe to grind. Why do we use energy for anything? Because we want to do things. How much energy do we use to farm sugar, junk oils, grapes for wine, hops for beer that only serve to make people unhealthier. How much energy do we expend to make junk fast fashion. How much energy does the US educational system consume in districts where the average kid can't read. How much energy does it take us to bomb civilians in the middle east and maintain the bases to maintain the capability to bomb civilians in the middle east. And the answer is a very clear "we generally don't care" until someone has an axe grind. I'm not justifying these things, just pointing out that I don't buy that these articles are just written out of a genuine interest in understanding and improving global energy consumption. The problem doesn't seem like that people use a lot of cloud services. That's probably not going to change and probably shouldn't. Maybe we should stop shutting down all the nuclear plants and build new ones and get the problem dealt with if this is such a big problem.