The energy thing won't sail. A backhoe or front-loader uses far more energy than the equivalent human labor, but having higher energy solutions available is wha

The energy thing won't sail. A backhoe or front-loader uses far more energy than the equivalent human labor, but having higher energy solutions available is what technological civilization does. Arguably Cowen's "Great Stagnation" was driven primarily by not embracing higher energy provision in the form of fission.