Widespread fear of nuclear electricity generation is yet another excellent example of risk misperception. Many people smoke and drive and eat excessively but have reservations about living next to a nuclear power plant, and polling has shown lasting and pervasive distrust of this form of electricity generation despite the fact that it has prevented

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broadly: increased wealth across a population leads to increased energy consumption, but only to a point. That flattening of the energy curve is also a result of a consistent, sustained effort to do more with less, including through policy and regulation like widespread efficiency standards, which cancel out increases due to economic growth. In non

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