Not really. Eventually electricity will dominate mining costs, not hardware, and people will only invest in more efficient hardware, not cheaper hardware. The total cost of the electricity used in mining will never exceed the total value of the block rewards plus transaction fees, since miners would rather stop mining than mine unprofitably.
Whether the total electricity used increases or decreases over time depends on whether the increase in price of bitcoins outpaces the block reward halving every 4 years, or transaction fees become a significant source of miner income (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Funding_network_security). A single bitcoin would need to be worth $1 million in 50 years to keep pace, for example.
But I think it's more likely we'll transition to better (cheaper, more secure) mining system before then anyway, which is entirely possible to do without having to redistribute bitcoins (it would essentially be a fork that the "economic majority" agrees with: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority)