We need both, because we will never reduce our energy consumption. It will keep escalating. Historically, the result of reducing how energy intensive our systems are has been that electricity becomes cheap for something else (see crypto, AI). We need to stop sponsoring any fossil fuel extraction, refinement and imports to make it less attractive for energy markets, and instead aggressively fund solar, wind and a variety of storage capacity.
We need both, because we will never reduce our energy consumption. It will keep escalating. Historically, the result of reducing how energy intensive our systems are has been that electricity becomes cheap for something else (see crypto, AI). We need to stop sponsoring any fossil fuel extraction, refinement and imports to make it less attractive for energy markets, and instead aggressively fund solar, wind and a variety of storage capacity.