That said -- I feel that any arguments along the lines of "humanity should use less energy" are doomed to failure. More technology, a larger population, and third world nations developing into first world nations, and the world's energy usage is only going to go up. It's not a question of whether that's good or bad, it's just inevitable.
The number one goal of humanity should be to find or create clean sources of energy that give us orders of magnitude more supply than there is demand.
Then we can stop arguing about which uses of energy are legitimate and which aren't.
That said -- I feel that any arguments along the lines of "humanity should use less energy" are doomed to failure. More technology, a larger population, and third world nations developing into first world nations, and the world's energy usage is only going to go up. It's not a question of whether that's good or bad, it's just inevitable.
The number one goal of humanity should be to find or create clean sources of energy that give us orders of magnitude more supply than there is demand.
Then we can stop arguing about which uses of energy are legitimate and which aren't.