> All the stats I'm aware of show fossil fuel usage going down but I'm sure there is more context to the data I'm missing. The research you're thinking about

> All the stats I'm aware of show fossil fuel usage going down but I'm sure there is more context to the data I'm missing. The research you're thinking about shows that fossil fuel usage is declining as a percentage of overall energy use. That much is true. Solar is making progress relative to coal, oil, and gas. But don't confuse the derivative of the relative difference with the scalar value of interest. Measured in physical units, fossil fuel consumption keeps increasing, as the IEA reports constantly.