The suns sets on the British empire
The rise and fall of the British Empire, as written in relative energy consumption per person:pic.twitter.com/p8JInpEEz6
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They got vampire energy now, it's the inverse of this chart
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Boer war caused Britain collapse!
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It would be interesting to see this compared to other countries in the global north
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Data source?
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Source?
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Energy use per capita is a direct indicator of quality of life. It has always been so.
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*Relative* to world average? That makes this a meaningless measurement of any property of the UK. It’s more a chart showing when the rest of the world started to catch up.
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It’s a measure of the extent to which we get to call the shots globally - other nations catching up was a big factor in this
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Unfortunately the size & population of the British Empire changed dramatically over this time frame. So you need to normalize your graph for that. I too would like to know your source for your data. Otherwise its just another pretty picture.
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All the sources are in the footnotes to this post.https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/07/11/why-america-wont-be-great-again/ …
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