You also seem to live in a different world. I urge you to start getting informed on what needs to be done in order to build hardware (hint: it does not grow on trees).

> then you are still MASSIVELY reducing your total energy.

Instead of using all those caps, look at the numbers: we have them. We use more and more energy.

> but that's just wildly, almost unfathomably, less efficient.

Not sure if you really need the hint, but you shouldn't spend more time flying around the world.

> It's almost certainly a lot less than how much energy I spend using Google.

It is a fact that it isn't. Before Google, people were using less energy than we are now, period.

> Probably something that requires more energy than close to nothing looking at memes on your phone.

The industry that gets you your memes on the hardware you call phone is anything but "close to nothing" when it comes to energy. I would say that you are in bad faith, but with all those examples you've giving, it seems like you are just uninformed.

So let me be blunt: your kids will most likely die because of how much energy we use (from one of the plethora of problems coming from that). At this point, we cannot do much about it, but the very least would be to be aware of it.

More energy because more people and more things are electrified & mechanical.

A massive portion of the world was basically living in the stone age and has been lifted into middle class lives over the last 60 years.

The population has also more than doubled.

This is like comparing apples to apes.

Sure, if you go back to when we were all monkeys, we are obviously using more energy per capita.

If you go back to WW2, The West is using far less energy per capita, even when you account for imports. And again, that's far less energy to produce far better lives. And both of those tr ends are continuing every year.

Sorry, you can't say, globally we use more energy, so every usage of energy is causing us to use more energy. It's not that simple.