This is a conclusion I have intuitively come to for several years now - good to see a terminology for it. Indeed major advancements for technological civilizati

This is a conclusion I have intuitively come to for several years now - good to see a terminology for it. Indeed major advancements for technological civilization will come out of energy plenty. If you keep double-clicking into most of worlds economic, environmental & even some social problems, fundamentally they boil down to energy availability & cost minimizing collateral damage. Take for instance - habitat destruction due to increasing destruction of forests for farmland. I had once calculated that in an energy unconstrained world, with a few thousand sky-scraper farms, you could literally feed the whole world and let farmland return to wilderness (boosting oxygen, green cover, increasing C02 capture etc). Of course this has security implications but then the trigger for most conflict is also typically in-equality - which again you can double-click down to energy. Similarly, in an energy unconstrained world, most pollution can be tackled with closed-cycle recycling processes. The main reason re-cycling doesn't happen is due to the energy cost of producing complex technologies to sort waste or filter chemicals out of waste-water etc. This is why it is critical for us to figure out ways to unlock & expand energy generation capabilities at scale that minimize or eliminate collateral damage. Efficiency will help but is not the game changer.