We need to have our feet on the ground, make sober, responsible decisions about what we are and what we should do. Thinking that miracles of any sort is going to pull us out of our problems will be fatal. Perhaps that is some of the problem on this list. Monetary economics is not a hard science, people are used to opinions, are not used to dealing with hard facts. Interdependence is a hard fact.
Energy efficiency has hard consequences, it defines life and death.
You get in the calories, in the proper balance, or you die. Energy balance is not a matter of opinion. You go on adding energy to a system, you will tear it apart. Not enough energy, it falls apart. You cannot take resources faster than they renew.