Just off the top of my head if you shut down coal fire power plants then the third world goes dark and then none of those people get to lift themselves out of poverty. If you're in a first world modern society you can make the adjustment but not if you're experiencing electricity for the first time in your countries history. There are always winners and losers and ideas like non-zero-sum are usually philosophical musings by those who are winners. Even in a first world country if you were the working poor and all of the sudden gasoline goes up to $12 a gallon like it is in some places in Europe or your electric bill doubles or triples it can decimate your standard of living... They're always winners and losers...
Just off the top of my head if you shut down coal fire power plants then the third world goes dark and then none of those people get to lift themselves out of poverty. If you're in a first world modern society you can make the adjustment but not if you're experiencing electricity for the first time in your countries history. There are always winners and losers and ideas like non-zero-sum are usually philosophical musings by those who are winners. Even in a first world country if you were the working poor and all of the sudden gasoline goes up to $12 a gallon like it is in some places in Europe or your electric bill doubles or triples it can decimate your standard of living... They're always winners and losers...