The neo-Mals don’t want any energy source that works. They want modern civilisation to fail. There are enough comments to that effect in their works.
There was a good review in ‘Psychology Today’. Describing the enduring appeal of apocalypse bs, the author describes some rats clearing a cage of the competition.
“How does this relate to the popularity of notions that the world is about to end? Think for a second. Every millennial end-of-the-world movement has a hitch. We’ll all be broiled, fried, or caught in the crossfire of apocalyptic battles and plague. WE’LL be wiped out. But not the true believers. They’ll be saved. And they’ll have a fresh new world, a world purged of us, a world they can turn into their own private paradise.
“Apocalypse-beliefs, I suspect, are land-clearance and land-grab dreams in disguise-dreams left over from our time as beasts.
“Now for a few closing suspicions. One of the most popular apocalyptic belief systems of the last 30 years has been the idea that we humans are bringing the destruction of the planet. The greenhouse-gas scenario is partly a scientific hypothesis and partly a deeply appealing myth. Climate-change-beliefs are a secular expression of an antique pattern…perhaps an instinctual pattern. They are a new way of saying that the end is coming and that only the believers will be saved. Only those who’ve embraced the right god or the right philosophy will survive. Only they will know the truth behind the new world order. And they will do more than remain alive, they will come out on top. They will flourish and thrive.
“Are the climate change believers right? Or will they force us to cripple our civilization so badly that the second great civilization we’re competing with today-the 2,200-year old empire of China-will come out on top?”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-genius-the-beast/200912/why-the-world-will-end-in-2012