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Economic growth is due to one of two things: 1) increased population or 2) increased efficiency.

Increased efficiency directly addresses the problem you raised.

Creating LED light bulbs that produce the same amount of light at 1/6th the electrical power just freed up 5/6th’s of that power for something else at no net increase in electrical generation.



What about increased natural resource consumption?


Consumption requires someone or something to create demand.


This is an inconvenient truth!!!




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