# Why Fossil Fuel Demand Can Rise Even as Clean Energy Wins Terrain

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- Published: 2026-10-22T20:00:00+00:00
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French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has offered energy-transition skeptics an appealing historical argument. In More and More and More, he argues that humanity has never really moved from one energy source to another. Wood was joined by coal, coal by oil, oil by gas and all of them by renewables. Energy sources accumulate rather than replace one another. Global primary-energy charts make the ar

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