Need to fire on all energy efficiency and renewables cylinders

Some have been "preaching" for years, even decades, that we need to fire on all energy efficiency and renewables cylinders. See 1992 public enquiry "evidence" here, for example.

Projected annual primary energy use in the UK, from:
Boyle, S., 1988, An alternative energy path for the UK, Friends of the Earth, London

Quote: "Most importantly, coupled with a programme of improved energy efficiency, renewable energy can begin to displace fossil fuels and nuclear power and thus help reduce the risks to the environment from acid rain, the accumulation of nuclear waste, the threat of nuclear accidents, nuclear weapons proliferation and climate change"