Josep G. Canadell

May 11, 2023 | anthropocenemagazine.org | Rob Jackson |Robert Jackson |Josep G. Canadell |Philippe Ciais

The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts. By By Rob Jackson, Josep Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Corinne Le Quéré, and Glen PetersJuly 2017Data Visualization by Nigel Hawtin 1. Overall global energy use has risen fivefold within one human lifetime. The history of energy use is like our closets. We don’t typically give up our belongings; we add to them. Coal didn’t replace wood. It supplemented wood as energy demands grew, overtaking it a century ago.