Reply #39: Do we have market & political forces creating incentives to provide full alternatives?

[Oregone]

No (and so long as we expand drilling, probably not ever).

Does the technology exist to do this? Probably (but there is a lot of political red tape people have to cut through first to get so much as a wind farm started these days).

While I believe it is in everyone's interests to reduce consumption and change lifestyles, this doesn't mean "regression". You can progressively change to find a balance between technology and sustainable living. But if an effort is made to control/restrict future growth and reduce consumption, paired with current green technologies, humans can find a comfortable existence that is nothing like the pioneers of yesteryear. There is no political and economic will to do this.