Indeed we are. I am fairly certain that despite the increasing evidence that non-renewable, renewable energy-harvesting technologies are no better than fossil fuels (in fact, some argue much worse in terms of EROEI and their ecological destructiveness), they will continue to be pursued and marketed as THE solution to our predicament for it is the ruling elite that own or have shares in the industrial processes and financial industry that are required for their manufacture, distribution, maintenance, and reclamation/disposal--or, in the case of the political class, receive 'support' from those who do. Everything, it seems, is a racket as US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler argued about war.