Global Warming and our Changing World

Could the U.S. have had it right all along? What if demanding lower emissions will damage our economy and handicap innovation to the point where we're just scraping by in an old system, and not developing any new technology? Could less-regulated emissions be the key to unlocking revolutionary new energy technology?

I'm thinking that forcing emissions lower will increase the need for such technology. Now companies will tweak their systems left and right to get their emissions legal, and each tweak will add up. To a new technology? Maybe. Or maybe a new technology will be demanded after all the possible tweaks have been implemented.

Hopefully new rules won't sabotage our efforts to develop clean energy.