Energy Is The Key
The average human being in a developed country uses more like 100 times the amount than a resting human being does to sustain their metabolism, if you add in the energy needed to get around, build and heat our homes, grow our food and all the other things our species gets up to.
Unlike virtually every other creature on Earth, human beings do much more with energy than just power our own metabolism.
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