Energy consumption and population

ke heinäk. 13 11:18:00 2022

The conventional approach to the energy-population nexus is that population levels determine energy demand -- the larger the population, the more the total energy required, with the magnitude of this total energy depending on the per capita energy consumption. In other words, population exogenously determines energy consumption.1 This exogenous impact of population on energy is the obvious aspect of the population-energy connection. If, however, energy consumption and population growth are a dialectical pair -- each transforming the other, and each being the effect when the other is the cause -- then the pattern of energy consumption should also have an effect on population growth, the other side of the coin. That energy strategies can contribute to a reduction of the intensity of the population problem has often been mentioned. But, the linkage has not been elaborated sufficiently; hence, an attempt here to explore this other dimension of the energypopulation nexus.

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