Forbes.com has a Q&A with Newsweek Middle East regional editor Christopher Dickey and Forbes.com editor Paul Maidment on the future of energy. It's the best summation of the "enlightened" conventional wisdom I've seen in awhile. These folks aren't carbon dead-enders, but neither to they appreciate the growing demand for or increasing innovation in support of alternative energy. They might consider what they're talking about to be a radical change, but we'd just consider it the baseline.