So you're saying that people won't want electricity, won't want goods to trade with others for stuff they want? Let's say some community decides, yes we want to strip mine our coal and use it for a nice new and shiny CO2 emitting power plant. What then? How about if they decide that they need that water for irrigation, and screw the downstream communities?  

How on earth do we transition to the magical utopia where the New Ecological Man understands and internalizes his long term interests? What happens during that transition period when local communities still have that old understanding of progress?