This will of course be the policy set by physics once we have exhausted all the easily accessible energy reserves: limited everything power. Nature will conduct Butlerian jihad with no great zeal or ardor, but with just patience.
That's going to take a very long time, there's massive amounts of solar, geothermal, and wind energy left available. Hell, natural gas is a waste product of oil drilling.
This will of course be the policy set by physics once we have exhausted all the easily accessible energy reserves: limited everything power. Nature will conduct Butlerian jihad with no great zeal or ardor, but with just patience.