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Why Fossil Fuel Demand Can Rise Even as Clean Energy Wins Terrain
Global energy totals make transitions appear additive because rising populations and prosperity can keep old and new sources growing simultaneously.
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French historian Jean‑Baptiste Fressoz argues that humanity has never truly shifted from one energy source to another. In his book More and More and More, he contends that each new source—coal joining wood, oil joining coal, gas joining oil—has been added rather than substituted. He extends this pattern to renewables, which now sit alongside existing fuels. According to Fressoz, energy sources accumulate over time instead of fully replacing one another.
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