@rasmusfleischer A perhaps more interesting metric comes from earth system studies: According to my own rough estimates, extrapolating from readily available energy metrics, excess energy added into the global system – from oil alone – amounts to around 36,000 times the available energy from human bodily capacity of living humans. A drastic (yet logical) conclusion would be that without this excess energy from oil, the average person would be 36,000 times less well off. 🤷♂️