Humanity’s trend towards utilizing ever more dense forms of fire was always driven by a commitment to scientific and technological progress. The realization that this process drives the increase of human potential population density (both in quantity and quality of life) was recognized at the turn of the 20th century and serves as the foundation for American economist Lyndon LaRouche’s method of economic forecasting. The graph above features American per capita access to energy and the post 1975 sabotage of the expected transition to nuclear fission and fusion