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We had a population explosion during the last 200 years that's only just starting to taper off. I was taught about it in school 30 years ago, except back then it was called a "demographic transition" and it was hailed as a sign of a country becoming economically prosperous. The "fertility crisis" is a moral panic manufactured by neoliberal capitalists.
That population explosion was enabled by a vast cheap energy bonanza called fossil fuels. Now that they are running out and getting more expensive and lower quality, everything is getting more expensive because fossil fuels are the basis of everything.
Things are expensive. That's all there is to it.
Oh, and it's a permanent situation. Renewables can't replace fossil fuels, if they could, why didn't we have 8 billion people a thousand years ago when we had all the solar, wind, and renewable energy we have now?
Space won't save us either. It's going to get uglier.
Ah yes, 1000 year old civilizations, famous for having modern high efficiency photovoltaics.
Because...power delivery and storage is also a thing? Like, electricity, and batteries? Which make renewable energy way more accessible. Ever heard of electric cars?
While cheap energy certainly played a huge role, medicine and other technology play an equal part.
They also kinda had fossil fuels back then, oil could be found on the surface. Why didn't have the Romans a billion population, when they could find oil on the surface?
We are currently experiencing the biggest wealth inequality in history and you think things are expensive just because they are expensive? Or because of fossil fuels being replaced by renewables?
There's a new billionaire made every 30 hours.
Go find one and say thank you for being my overlord.
It makes zero sense to say we had "all the solar, wind and renewable energy we have now". Electricity wasn't discovered until 500 years ago and made useful much more recently, in the early 1800s.
Sure we had windmills and watermills, but surely anyone can see that harnessing the power of the wind or water for a dedicated task is a very different proposition to generating energy that can be directed to nearly anything.
Renewables can't replace fossil fuels everywhere they are used, but they can directly in an awful lot of cases and more cases can be adapted to use electricity rather than fossil fuel (trains going from diesel to electric, etc.)
So more to the point, what are you on about?
Solar is better than its ever been and will get more efficient as tech improves. Fossil fuels are also massively subsidized by entrenched interests