The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

I know you mean well with this video and put a lot of research into your videos, but I have to disagree with the message here. If all countries use as much energy per capita as the United States, we would either cover the Earth in various renewable energy producing sources or need an explosion in the technologies we use to gather renewable energy. I agree, less industrialized nations need to be allowed to use energy in order to develop their economics to the extant of what are considered the post-industrial or 'modern' nations. However, we (Americans) and other industrialized/post-industrial nations need to use less energy and invest in renewable energy sources. Since it is impossible right now for us to convince (most) of the boomer congresspeople to actually take action in a way that allows us to use energy w/o destroying the environment, it is on us as individuals to do what we can to make a tiny, tiny, tiny, miniscule dent in energy use.

It seems reckless to say we need to use more energy because it isn't true and, until we find a way to use more energy without using more fossil fuels, it is dangerous. Capitalism is fueled off of energy, that is why we think we need more energy. If we stop prioritizing growth over everything else, we wouldn't have this constant increasing need for energy.