Civilization not collapsing would be a big benefit, but one hard to count. It would be worth a very great deal of present inconvenience and discomfort. That wou

Civilization not collapsing would be a big benefit, but one hard to count. It would be worth a very great deal of present inconvenience and discomfort. That would only be perceptible much later. But like "Y2K", all the work that went into averting catastrophe looks wasted afterward. With plenty of people available to insist no catastrophe looms, it is hard to get people to do anything. About the only lever we have access to, pre-catastrophe, is that renewables are vastly cheaper than everything else we are using to generate power. We can only pray it will prove enough. So, things that make influential people more sensitive to electricity prices and less sensitive to gasoline prices help.