>> But when you get right down to it, there are a lot of places where the economy is based on resource extraction, and I have a hard time envisioning what the p

>> But when you get right down to it, there are a lot of places where the economy is based on resource extraction, and I have a hard time envisioning what the people living in those places are going to do if the brighter, greener future comes to pass. There aren't going to be nearly as many people living in those places. Like the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath people will move to greener pastures. We can make that transition easier or harder, but there's not much we can do to prevent it altogether and we probably shouldn't even if we could.