1/ controversial topic: western economies are going to die due to poor energy policy, ESG is a mental illness

energy consumption in western economies down over the last decade. economic systems consume energy. declining consumption is a leading indicator of low systemic output. 
 https://i.imgur.com/ov3wxbb.jpg

🤔 

makes me wonder about:

1/ energy efficiency

2/ physical vs. digital GDP

10 years in crypto. co-founder of @syndicate

totally...

do digital economies (e.g., Insta, Tik Tok) start to escape the laws of physics, have exponential leverage, and show up as net declines in energy consumption?

ex: the digital creator economy and future metaverse?

energy efficiency has limits and should be displaced by consuming higher tech goods (requiring more HPC and therefore energy)

digital goods require energy consumption and have a very physically intense value chain, starting from semis to data centers to devices themselves and their energy consumption