Tom Gardner wrote:
I keep telling everybody that this whole "Industrial Revolution" thing was a
bad idea. We humans need to go back to being an agrarian society with about
one fifth the population...max. Now, how can we go about killing off four
fifths of the human infestation. Or, if just electric motors were all of
the high efficiency type, the worlds electrical energy needs and resulting
pollution would be decreased by over 40%

Nuclear energy is your answer to both questions