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What a silly thing to say.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't want to use less power.
I suspect what you really mean is that you want to reduce power requirements by some authoritarian policy.
What I want is to save the world from overconsumption, and yes, that's going to require governments rationing power and enforcing efficiency.
Calling that "authoritarian" is nonsense, though. It doesn't require the army going house to house and killing people with incandescent lightbulbs or something. Grow up.
Sure mate, I guess the question of whether it's authoritarian is subjective. Suffice to say rationing would be daft. What about roof top solar?
We can't do that without an extremely exploitative supply chain that uses child slaves to mine for cobalt and lithium, that is built on an imperialist supply chain that subjugates nations under the boot-heel of the likes of the US and France, that releases massive amounts of CO2 and causes huge amounts of deforestation from mining and shipping and manufacturing and installing this "green" technology.
We also can't do that on a reasonable timeline that will prevent catastrophic warming. The majority of estimates put us past 2040.
Also? You aren't going to get rooftop solar to replace coal and gas without "authoritarian" measures like mandates and penalties.