Your first paragraph really made the second one a pleasant surprise! No we shouldn't be this power hungry, we've effectively never replaced an energy source by

Your first paragraph really made the second one a pleasant surprise! No we shouldn't be this power hungry, we've effectively never replaced an energy source by another... we keep on stacking the new ones on top of more of the old ones [1]. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...