Miami Herald is currently running a series of articles on the effects of extreme heat in South Florida (for example on construction and agriculture workers). In 1960, there were an average of 85 days of 90 degree weather or hotter. Today, the average is 133 days, by 2050, estimates will be 187 days. Something has to give. All of the above for alternate energy is my vote. But you have to first agree that global warming is a problem, which obviously many on this thread basically reject out of hand, presumably because Al Gore wrote a book 25 years ago. Thereafter, their arguments are aimed at disproving any notion that Al Gore may have been on to something.
As just one example, saw one proposal to encourage big box stores to put solar panels on the roof, like covering all of Fayette Mall with solar, surely could supply a lot of electricity for retail, and a lot of those stores close in the evening, when power has to be stored by batteries. It is hard . . . but not impossible.