[op03]

>> If we want 8 billion people living in comfort, we need more energy

"We want" is language that hides reality. Who wants this? How many people?

As the Trump election (and many other elections around the world) show there is no "we want". Different people want different things. Sweeping that fact under the carpet again and again leads to Paris type meaninglessness. Paris fails because there was never any "we".

All the narratives of fear and blame, guilt and shame that have been tried did not make a dent.

Those who want to do something will do it and those that don't want to wont.

Reconcile to that reality and things will actually move forward.

[Mahn]

"We want" here is a figure of speech. The world doesn't actually care if you don't want other people to live as comfortably as you, because it's gonna happen either way, no country in the world is going to stop pursuing a better quality of life. The real question here is "do we want to figure this out, or do we look the other way".