[orson2077]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I envy your naivete. You are extremely optimistic about people and politics.

[XMPPwocky]

How so? To my ears, "we need to accept significant degradations in the availability of electricity" is a deeply pessimistic statement.

[creato]

The implication is that it's a voluntary political decision to forgo more reliable sources of electricity. There's basically zero chance of that happening in any political entity, hence that expectation is optimistic.

Of course, it frequently happens involuntarily, and just saying "get used to it" is pessimistic, as you say.

Both reflect the same thing: it's politically untenable to voluntarily accept poor reliability of electricity supply.