&gt;&gt; But when you get right down to it, there are a lot of places where the economy is based on resource extraction, and I have a hard time envisioning what the people living in those places are going to do if the brighter, greener future comes to pass.<p>There aren&#x27;t going to be nearly as many people living in those places. Like the Joads in <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> people will move to greener pastures. We can make that transition easier or harder, but there&#x27;s not much we can do to prevent it altogether and we probably shouldn&#x27;t even if we could.