> 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? :-)

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onlyrealcuzzo a day ago | parent [-]

https://datacommons.org/tools/visualization#visType%3Dtimeli...

	▲	palata a day ago \| parent [-]
		Ok, you show me a line. Where does it explain what it measures? It says "Energy used per capita", it doesn't say what energy it accounts for. It most definitely does NOT account for the commute of the employees in China who worked on parts of your smartphone. Does it account for the use of TikTok? To what extent? Does it account for the AC in the datacenters used by TikTok outside the US?