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Standard of living has been decoupled from energy consumption for quite some time now in developed countries.
by adrianN 1y ago
Standard of living has been decoupled from energy consumption for quite some time now in developed countries.
- nisten69 1y agoComplemetely untrue. The evidence is pretty clear. There's no such thing as a low energy country with a high standard of living. If I were to pick the #1 thing that most European are literally ignorant about is exactly this fact. Data below: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$ui$chart$cursorMode=hand;;&model$markers$bubble$encoding$y$data$concept=hapiscore_whr&space@=geo&=time;;&scale$domain:null&zoomed@:30&:80;&type:null;;&x$data$concept=energy_use_per_person&source=sg&space@=geo&=time;;&scale$domain:null&zoomed@:0&:16000;&type:null;;&frame$value=2022;&trail$show:false&data$filter$markers$isl=2022&fin=2022&bhr=2022&tur=2022&jpn=2022&kor=2022&deu=2022&cod=2022&kwt=2022&aus=2022&ind=2022&yem=2022ð=2022&are=2022&sgp=2022&can=2022&chn=2022&irn=2022&zwe=2022&irq=2022&swe=2022&sau=2022&usa=2022;;;;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v2 https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$ui$chart$cursorMode=hand;;...
- adrianN 1y agoThat’s why I specified „developed“. Economic growth in developed countries has been decoupled from energy use since the early aughts at least.
- kragen 1y agoThat's because they've been in an energy crisis for the last 50 years, so much advancement was by improvement of efficiency. Because of the dramatic cost reductions of photovoltaic modules, that energy crisis is over now.