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.

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

We keep using more and more energy per capita, period. You can go back 10 000 years, 200 years or 100 years, it's the same.

> If you go back to WW2, The West is using far less energy per capita, even when you account for imports.

This is blatantly wrong.

> 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.

It is that simple: what you wrote is called a tautology: we use more energy, so we use more energy. And every new usage of energy is causing us to use more energy.

If you use more, you use more. How is that not simple? :-)