This so called greening isn't greening at all. Just knowing what I know, it would appear most of this so called earth friendly things are worse for our environment then what we had before. ETHANOL is one. The new mercy light bulbs. The solar panels and wind mills that don't work that great and take up vast amount of land if used for the population and not just personal. They took freon off the market and replaced it with stuff(can't remember what it's called) which makes fridges not last as long as the old ones. New electric cars that if implemented for even a small portion of the population will put a strain on power plants and we could have brown outs and black outs on a regular basis. STUPID!! And I could go on and on. There is always a price to pay for any of this stuff oil, gas, wind, solar, ect. They have to use common sense and balance out the good and the bad before shoving this junk down our throats.
What you are describing is the basic law of economics. To get X I have to not get something else. IOW, competition between competing goods.
The root concept of liberalism is that they reject this notion. They really believe you can get something without giving up something else.
I recently had an extended conversation with my boss on this topic. He is verrry liberal, but a really great guy.
He sincerely believes no policy should be implemented unless it makes things better for everybody. I tried to point out that this is by definition a contradiction in term. He didn’t really submit a counter-argument, he just refused to accept that mine was valid.