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The point in the article is to use less resources. So, yes?



People think that by making a system use less resources, the entire use of it on a societal level will be reduced. Unfortuantely, we must watch out for more efficiency making more poeple use it, and potentially increasing absolute quantity of energy being used.


Energy usage is good, actually. Energy scarcity and dirty energy are bad. But energy usage is good.

We should strive to use and produce orders of magnitude more (clean) energy.




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