We should be actively trying to discourage pointless energy and resource consumption, including people living in the burbs and having huge homes. I’d agree with

We should be actively trying to discourage pointless energy and resource consumption, including people living in the burbs and having huge homes. I’d agree with the idea we shouldn’t be making decisions about how people spend energy if and only if we could price in all externalities related to energy production adequately. This task, I believe, is more or less impossible.