SPOT ON!
The very thing that is driving away our energy producers is the false belief that our World is dying because of industrial/economic progress.
Forcing our most vital industry to fail is seen by them as a victory and convinces them that they have been right all along. They will go even farther in the belief that they are replacing the lost, Earth killing industries with many more profitable ventures, based on saving the environment and the Earth.
They have given absolutely no thought into the basic economic principles of their ideals. They have assumed that the economy will boom as the result of them having defeated what they see as pure evil.
They are about to learn a lesson in Global economics they had never even dreamed existed.
What’s even more ironic, is these people are mostly College educated. Which pin-points the source of the initial problem.