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Well sure, but that's a bit of a dead end conclusion.

I think it's still better than belching out coal soot, and with abundant energy we can power other processes to help clean things up. Well - we could, but we'll probably just mine bitcoin with it and zip around in our flying cars :( But unbounded consumption and our awful societal structure is a bit of a different problem compared to how we fuel it.

See Jevons paradox - increased efficiency often leads to increased demand and usage.