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Right but even renewable and abundant energy is scarce, in that it's not infinite and mismanagement or inefficient use can mean it's not there when you need it.
Communal kitchens, bathrooms and toilets mean that all the energy, materials and manpower saved from deduplicated construction and maintenance can go somewhere else.
Renewable and abundant is what we are going full speed towards. No need to mention infinity but we will clearly end up with more renewable energy production than fossil energy we are using now. Renewables are going to actually end scarcity of energy.
It doesn't make sense to shift all consumption to renewables if there's no thought for efficient consumption or reducing consumption. There's a finite amount of renewable energy that can be extracted, if consumption itself isn't managed we can be right back in the same boat of unmet needs in another century.
By current trends the world population will stabilise or begin shrinking in the next century or so