Energy is crucial for modern comfort and socioeconomic development. It facilitates global connectivity, regulates climate control within homes, and supports food production. There is a direct correlation between energy consumption and GDP per capita, highlighting the necessity of energy for wealth creation. Currently, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, and energy access is essential for alleviating this issue. However, the challenge lies in meeting energy needs without exacerbating climate change, as energy supply heavily contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. The goal for the 21st century is to increase energy availability sustainably.
Money can buy comfort, but energy makes comfort possible in the first place. Energy is the great enabler of the modern world. It connects the globe by moving people and hauling goods.
Making as much energy as possible available to as many people as possible ought to be a defining goal of the 21st century.
Plot a second graph, this time of carbon emissions per capita against energy consumption per capita: you'll draw another straight line.
Low-energy, high-income nations do not exist. Prosperity and energy are inseparable; you cannot have one without the other.
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