We have used enormous amounts of fossil fuels and created pollution of our atmosphere and practically destroyed our environment as well as the ecological balance of the earth. However there now exists a whole new technology: solar panels, wind generators, organic recycling technologies, which all share the sun as the primary energy giver.
These technologies are simple, clean, non-polluting and cost-effective.
Political pressure is being brought to bear on governments to ignore them by wealthy owners of coal, oil and gas companies. They have a monopoly on the present energy resource systems and are the major block and obstacle to the new rapidly developing solar technolgies.
For example, the Japanese researchers have already come up with a new form of solar panel in the form of a roofing tile, which could drastically reduce costs. This would revolutionize the world and equalize the distribution of wealth to some extent.
The huge polluting and inefficient industrial corporations might be dismantled. Even cars can run on batteries now but where are the gas stations that have chargers for them instead of carrying gas???
There are many different technologies for free energy that have been suppressed since 40ies. These days we all could have a free energy and cars running on water or magnetic field. And of course there is Tesla... We're all kept hostages by greedy companies and corrupted politicians.