[rixed]

> we do need more energy

Sounds like ideology to me. I, for one, need many thing from basic food to nice music, but energy on its own in not in that list.

I wonder what people picture when they say "energy" but probably not that thing that is equivalent to movement and that is always a constant by definition (at least here and now), and that increase entropy when we manipulate it (entropy being that thing every life forms is designed to fight).

Anyway, carbon in the atmosphere may be a bigger problem than a fusion reactor in your garden, yet I'm a bit concerned by how much faster "we" could destroy our environment by producing more useless stuff if it became cheaper to do so.

[yellowapple]

> I, for one, need many thing from basic food to nice music, but energy on its own in not in that list.

Energy is a dependency of both of the things you listed - and an abundance of energy makes those things more accessible to more people, yourself and myself included.

[rixed]

It's also a dependency of everything detrimental. My point was: it's not central in itself, but is framed to appear so because of ideology.