Maintain? We will obviously increase our energy use, and not by a little but by order of billions and billions (non-accurate estimate). We haven't really even started consuming energy yet. We just came out of caves and are barely learning to walk as a civilization.
We don't need to cut our consumption until we actually run out of energy, i.e. have harnessed the whole sun with a Dyson sphere and used up every other source. After that, there are other stars to harness.
We don't need to cut our consumption until we actually run out of energy, i.e. have harnessed the whole sun with a Dyson sphere and used up every other source. After that, there are other stars to harness.