The relentless — and ever accelerating — rise in energy demand of oil extraction threatens to upend centuries of economic growth; with or without wind, solar and nuclear. Together with a decline in conventional oil production it will eventually cap off the net energy returned to the economy, making any further expansion to our material world impossible.
In fact, there is a good case to be made that we have already passed this point, and that the economic pains we endure at the moment are just a quiet prelude to the massive crash to come as a result.
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/meet-the-gator-growing-energy-demand