Energy Echelons: Global Average Energy Use/Capita

By Paul Kedrosky · February 2, 2010 · ·

I had someone cite data to me today about global per capita energy use. For my part I responded that such averages are meaningless: We live in a world of energy use echelons, as the following figure shows.

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