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It's not an extreme position; there are various activists extolling the benefits of an Intermittency Economy that would spring up in society once power companies introduced load-shedding and brownouts when renewable power sources become unavailable unexpectedly.

"For a while, let’s eat a cold dinner here and there. Continuity costs too much. Climate change kills, and it kills vulnerable people first. Intermittency saves lives, and it saves vulnerable people first. Let the pause take its place in continuous climate activism."

https://bostonreview.net/articles/david-mcdermott-hughes-bat... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/29/intermit...

It's not really a big deal in the bigger scheme of things; it's just asking people to adjust their lifestyles and habits to take into account the available resources at a given moment against the background of a deadly threat to humanity. It's certainly nothing that a billion or more people in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Lebanon don't already have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.