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Yeah, that's without question. Overall energy needs will still continue to increase during that time, global population growth will almost certainly continue as

• toomuchtodo 3y ago
  Right, you're spot on. We're lucky in that fertility is plummeting across the world [1], which means the population peak won't be too high [2], but we're still going to have to provide for all the people who are going to exist over the course of the next century. The world is rapidly aging [3]; we should build renewables while we still have a young, productive worker cohort [4]. How are people who are going to want or need to migrate, to survive carbon emissions catching up with us, going to? No idea. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/ https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/ [2] https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time [3] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-... [4] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/electricity-generation-renewables-power-iea/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/electricity-generatio...
  • steve_adams_86 3y ago
    Interesting. I thought "plummeting" deserved correction, but it's me who was wrong: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-births-by-world-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-births-b... It has risen and fallen in the past, but nonetheless it's quite a decline at the moment.