"Population size doesn't depend on electricity consumption. The truth is very likely that you can find a much stronger reverse connection between power consumption and population growth."

Perhaps I was not clear. There are ALREADY too many people; population GROWTH is only a secondary problem. For example, are you proposing that India, China, etc. are going to reduce their electricity consumption over time? And Europe, also?

It seems to me that the problem is not the pollution or climate effect or non-renewable-ness of any given energy technology, but the fact that any energy "solution" becomes objectionable when scaled up to a size that can support the current global population. It applies to all of the options: Wind, solar, coal, nuclear, oil, etc.

The result: Continued discussion of how to "solve" the energy problem by changes on the supply side, when the real issue is the insatiable demand. Conservation can help, but if you don't combine conservation with a strong program to reduce the population, you end up building a system that can support an additional population increase--until you hit a new, higher demand limit.