What Now?

Oil's hidden costs visible, but will it matter?

Even conservatives and libertarians are calling for more regulation. Nobody seems to have any answers or ideas for this. I should say though that the Chernobyl accident was one thing that helped bring the Soviet Union down. Also, simply changing socio-economic systems from capitalist-socialist, to socialist-capitalist will change the fact that people still use more and more fossil fuels. It won't change the fact that we don't have a replacement. It would solve no technical problem.

There doesn't seem to be a real answer to the oil problem, or the coal problem. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?