To solutions that are based beyond corporate interests?

No, to getting cheap energy, be it hydroelectric, be it geothermal or simply conventional means of striking partnerships and alliances in traditional energy imports/exports.

As critical as I am, I don't want to fall into this fatalism.

People as a whole are resourceful and ideas are bulletproof, so a few good ideas and a determined group of individuals is the elites worst nightmare, it seems these people are our adversaries but in all the lame and pathetic ways you can think of, by blackmail and treachery is how they advance, completely self destructive.