http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/6/172045/7999#6

"limit the amount of energy that any household or company may use.  A rational cap would be the amount that could be produced at the site added to what is produce within the political boundary"

An interesting and unique idea.

Personally I think small scale solar, wind, and water power would power my idea of balance, humankind living within it's means in symbiosis with the natural world.  

Enough EXTRA power could be conserved and generated, over and above local needs, to make those areas already blighted by industrial and agribizz destruction provide enough space for industrial energy uses.  

Land devestated by chemical agriculture is many, many times the area needed for wind and solar on land.  And offshore installations can be justified from an environmental stance by their prevention of the use of pond nets that are destroying life in the ocean.

Would it be possible to achieve that state of grace given the virulence of the human infection?  

I say we go for it.  Prove the concept works and fight the hopeless poltical and cultural odds to make that the new norm.

Is there any better hopeless crusade to join?  Nope.  Onward!