{"id":22806,"date":"2017-02-18T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22806"},"modified":"2017-02-18T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T17:03:20","slug":"energy-consumption-vs-core-populations-trending-down-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22806","title":{"rendered":"Energy Consumption vs. Core Populations – Trending Down Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy Consumption vs. Core Populations – Trending Down Together<\/a><\/h3>\n
In this article, I want to spend a little time reviewing two of the most relatively\u00a0reliable data sets, population size\/growth and energy consumption\/growth.\u00a0 I’ll compare the total energy consumption of nations \/ groupings of nations vs. their core\u00a0(25-54yr\/old)\u00a0employed populations and total core (25-54yr\/old) populations.<\/p>\n

What’s the point?\u00a0 We\u00a0are in the midst of\u00a0a\u00a0structural, secular change and\u00a0policy makers \/ central bankers\u00a0insistence that\u00a0it is\u00a0just a transitory issue in need of more rate cuts and\u00a0more credit to ”restart the economy” is\u00a0absolutely ridiculous.\u00a0 This is the story of\u00a0cause<\/em>\u00a0(declining population, where it counts) and\u00a0effect<\/em>, declining energy consumption and economic activity.\u00a0 And this is about to really pick up speed to the downside (more on that, China, below).\u00a0 Plus, we can ponder if real economic “growth” coincident\u00a0with declining consumption of energy is possible…or is\u00a0that growth\u00a0just debt and financialization?\u00a0 Also keep in mind while viewing the charts and data below, if not for the twenty six years of Federal Reserve (& CB’s worldwide) interest rate cuts incenting all the debt creation, energy consumption would have begun declining\u00a0long ago.<\/p>\n

US-<\/strong>
\nBelow, total US energy consumption (quadrillion BTU’s) vs.\u00a0core employees.\u00a0 Correlation?\u00a0 Causation?\u00a0 Anyway, just is what it is.\u00a0 The US consumes 18% of global energy but US total energy consumption has been falling since 2007 and is now back to\u00a0where it was 17 years ago, in 1999….likewise, the total number of 25-54yr\/old employees peaked in ’07 and is now\u00a0back to 1999 levels.<\/p>\n

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Below, same as above but added\u00a0core population through 2025 (UN assumes, perhaps wrongly,\u00a0continued levels of immigration to achieve that slight population growth from now through 2025).<\/div>\n
JAPAN –<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Below,\u00a0core employees vs. total energy consumption.\u00a0 Japan consumes 3.5% of global energy.\u00a0 Japan’s total energy consumption peaked in ’06 and is now back to total levels last seen in 1992…and the total number of Japan’s core population now employed is\u00a0on par with total employed in\u00a01982.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Energy Consumption vs. Core Populations – Trending Down Together In this article, I want to spend a little time reviewing two of the most relatively\u00a0reliable data sets, population size\/growth and energy consumption\/growth.\u00a0 I’ll compare the total energy consumption of nations \/ groupings of nations vs. their core\u00a0(25-54yr\/old)\u00a0employed populations and total core (25-54yr\/old) populations. What’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14704,264,1160],"class_list":["post-22806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-economica","tag-energy-consumption","tag-population-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22807,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions\/22807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}