The purpose of "green energy" is to create a low-maintenance infrastructure that can support a few technocrat families after a collapse. The "green" part is a pretext for mobilizing and expending the effort and resources of civilization toward a hidden goal that assumes the vast majority of the "little" people will die of starvation and disease.
The "elites" will get to enjoy a planet free from the "gross" and demanding work like extracting resources from nature, and don't have to share it with the disgusting and contemptible masses.
You are thinking about it wrong.
The purpose of "green energy" is to create a low-maintenance infrastructure that can support a few technocrat families after a collapse. The "green" part is a pretext for mobilizing and expending the effort and resources of civilization toward a hidden goal that assumes the vast majority of the "little" people will die of starvation and disease.
The "elites" will get to enjoy a planet free from the "gross" and demanding work like extracting resources from nature, and don't have to share it with the disgusting and contemptible masses.
Goats for the peasants are good enough, while we sip on champagne in our glass houses in the Alps.