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> the majority of the world would be living

differently

we don't know how, we sure can't say it would be worse, it probably wouldn't.

modern medicine is not energy intensive likewise aren't better hygiene and better food. Actually vaccines, that fight infectious diseases, have been discovered when we used little or no fossil fuel and the light was kept on by candles or oil, including whale oil.