That's the problem isn't it? We all have personal and global expectations on lifestyles that absolutely demand  a certain high level of energy resources for support. Whatever the problems with the existing energy infrastructure, we are critically dependent on it and its sheer immensity means it cannot be switched out to an alternative system in anything less than decades. We have started though, and the shift is accelerating, but so are the impacts from the old systems, and the race is on. Actually it is more a contest isn't it- or as perhaps some willfully blind witnesses would have it - just another CON(test).