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> We use 55% more energy than in 1997? Where is all that going?

Mainly to rapidly developing countries like China and India. Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit, China and India have increased 3 fold.

> I have no problem going back to my 1997 lifestyle and cant point to much explaining this growth.

Approximately nobody in develping countries feels that way.

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> Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production.

Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that is to promote the lifestyle of developed countries.

Oxfam estimates that 1% of the richest people emit double the carbon emission of the half the poorest of humanity

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...

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