When you live on a small island, this is to be expected, unless you just want to use everything completely up. Those that have the money will just keep consuming, and the world just keeps getting more and more reliant on power usage.
A small argument can be made for there being less hydrogen on the planet since its formation (it may float away) but it’s starkly clear that the total carbon currently stored within the atmosphere, living forms, minerals and vegetable matter as well as the waters.
We can’t use it up; to think that it has suddenly become diabolical in nature is puerile and to exercise absolute control is the hallmark of all collapsing societies frightened by a loss of control.
Whoever the bastard was that spread the dominant notion that evolution was equatable with real progress should be hunted down and shot dead.