Amy Miller, CEO of PRAGMA sat down in front of a live audience last week with Rob West, Founder and Chief Analyst at Thunder Said Energy.
There is a shift in perspective that is gaining ground, that unleashing better energy is likely to deliver the best human outcomes through 2050. This means vastly more energy, at a lower cost, to unlock new possibilities (including AI), and to mitigate the consequences of inevitable climate change (rather than pretending we can stop climate change). This is a total departure from the decarbonization movement's 2019-21 consensus, that the best human outcomes would be achieved by limiting energy use, for example by targeting c20% lower global energy use by 2050. This was the key topic of discussion in our podcast - we hope you enjoy listening!
"Everyone in the Energy world wants to deliver better outcomes and we just thought, maybe 5 years ago, that the best outcomes would have come from curtailing energy, reducing energy in the interests of stopping climate change. Its like a train coming down the tracks - you cant stop it by lying down. The best outcomes are actually going to be through ramping energy, amazing ways of using energy, unleashing energy and doing that as efficiently and as best we possibly can. The energy industry really gets it and wants to deliver better human outcomes. We are all in this together and we can do it."
