I heard a few key thinkers predicting a larger recession due to our inability of getting more energy out.

GDP and energy seemed to be correlated so far, as if our growth is directly or indirectly fueled by the cheap labor of machines and automation.

Gas and electricity production reached a peak which can only go down in a finite world. With a constrained energy supply, GDP should go down. At least that's what happened so far since the 1800s.

Germany and UK entered recession the last quarter.