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by wnkrshm 1724 days ago
It is good to see that the per capita trend has reversed, maybe if the global population would not increase steadily we may actually not increase energy consumption steadily.

Edit: I found an interesting nature article[0] that looks at different correlations of population and consumption to identify if there is an anthropocene epoch. There are pretty clear-cut trends but who knows, maybe Earth's population will actually reach a kind of steady state.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00029-y.pdf

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Global population is expected to plateau soonish.