Yeah just assuming humans keep finding new, more powerful sources of energy has me skeptical that this trend will hold... but I'm also skeptical that energy usage will continue to be so strongly correlated to human flourishing.

For almost all of human history, we have struggled to secure enough resources on demand, and more energy usage typically meant more likelihood of securing those resources.

But this is the first generation ever where we're truly living in a world of abundance. The issue (for nearly everyone in the developed world) isn't a lack of food, water, shelter, etc. More energy doesn't pack the same punch it used to.