Maggie's Farm

The cited references and video illustrate several things to me (in no special order):
1.) The US has a HUGE (define that word any way you wish) amount of energy available, whether it be in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear fissile material, hydro, wind, even solar.
2.) Various interests, including "environmentalists," the EPA, power companies, fossil fuel companies, all work to block or hinder the use of some or all of this energy by consumers.
3.) Our global climate will change, almost regardless of what humans do. Our star's variable output has more to do with the Earth's changing climate than all the "carbon spewed into the atmosphere" by industrialization.
4.) This doesn't mean that we shouldn't be concerned with real pollution (BP); but only wealthy societies are able to afford cleaning up their environments. Witness the horrible environmental mess in the "people's socialist democracies" that only came to light after 1989. Those governments did not care about their peoples' health, only about their "5-year plans" for industrialization.
5.) Capitalism is responsible for any and all value that is placed on these energy resources, as well as for the means to recover and utilize them. The reason that the estimates for the amount that is economically recoverable keeps going up is not because the price keeps going up (it doesn't just go up, but also down), but because of technological innovation that continually increases that amount of these resources that can be recovered; for instance, the "fracking" techniques that have made so much more of these fossil fuels available for recovery in just the last ten years.
6.) The main impediment to recovering and using these resources is not only the "environmental lobby," but it's skillful use of government agencies and the MSM to block any and all use of newly recoverable resources.