> There’s no universe where expensive energy and unavailable housing is a better world.

But there is a world where solar power plus battery storage is so much cheaper than coal that it's going to be cleaned up AND lower price of electricity just by market forces.

Fossil fuels have a host of nasty externalities aside from climate change that are greatly lessened by cleaner sources of energy. For example, cutting down on the 10s of millions of lives that are shortened and made worse by fossil fuel pollution could be part of a better world.

In many places wind and solar are now cheaper than fossil fuels. This can particularly be seen in the past year countries like Pakistan, India, South Africa, etc greatly expanding their use of solar in particular.

Not sure what immigration has to do with energy policy.