It's a system thing. The global superorganism that is humanity consumes energy. Democratic capitalism turned out to be the most efficient consumer of energy. What it produced was a bunch of plastic crap, weapons, cars, and some cool tech. But ll of it is just an energy sink.

It's like traffic. Add more lanes, more cars pop up to use them and you're right back to rush hour. If we add more energy to the system, it will get used. And the corporations we have now are really efficient at using energy. It's why you can buy cheap plastic crap and chemicals, but food is getting more expensive.

But regardless of which politicians are in charge, the whole energy using behemoth will carry on.