Wrong. The correct answer is to use more energy. The more energy each individual uses, the higher the standard of living for everyone. We need to increase our energy "consumption" tenfold, or a hundredfold. Energy is prosperity.
Also, there is nothing wrong with energy use. It has no moral component. Energy is limitless, and it causes no damage to us or to the environment in itself. The way it is liberated may cause pollution -- the dirty coal-fired electricity plants in India are an example -- but actual use of energy is benign. All we need to do is insure in a reasonable way that the extraction of energy is clean -- particulate scrubbers in the stacks of American coal-fired electric plants, for example. Or nuclear energy, which is quite clean.
Wrong. Energy use isn't what is pushing degeneracy, propaganda and addiction. What is using the energy is.
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