Then it's clear that you missed my point, entirely...
...which is that as long as the government takes the role of choosing winners and losers based almost entirely upon pop science and who's buddies and bundles with whom, there will be no "healing the environment".
It's certainly true that "Most of us aren't in a position to make the decisions that will guide the country in this respect", but it's also true that the ones we've been choosing to do so aren't either. The current state of the President's alternative energy agenda is painful enough proof of that.