[orwin]

Real GDP per habitant is fueled by energy usage (except for a short period in the 70s where it was fueled by increased efficiencies, at least in France).

[sottol]

A quick search turns up energy per capita has been 300-350m btu pa since 1970 [2] while inflation adjusted per capita GDP tripled in that period [1].

One can argue over the definition of real gdp vs inflation adjusted gdp but the 3x increase imo vs constant energy use seems quite convincing to me.

Imo economic growth decoupled from energy use and it no longer holds.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDUSA

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/10/176801719/two-...