11 December

Again it's not a particular interest in energy that makes me post about it. It's because energy is the centre of societies, everything they do. The black line is the US. Australia (not shown) is close to that black line. Europe is below the Chinese line. The main cause of our outrageous energy use? Transportation. Highly inefficient vehicles, and far too much flying. About 80 gigajoules per capita is sufficient for a good life. We're running a society using almost 4 times that, per person. And have the hilarious hypocrisy to accuse places like India and China of using too much. Asia and Africa will dominate this century and next, and we're pissing them off mightily.