there is more than enough wealth to go around

This is why I don't feel resentful towards rich people. They aren't actually stealing anything from me, nor are they hogging so much that there's not enough for everyone else. The problem is they think poor people deserve poor lives, otherwise some rich people might deserve not-so-rich lives and it's difficult them to imagine a world that is so fluid with opportunities. The idea that your actions could lead to your privilege being revoked is so terrifying they just don't think about it. They focus on policy or sustainability, as if either of these things are going to change thousands of years of developed class culture.

I don't disagree with you, but I think the terms need to be clarified more often than they are. "Wealth" is ambiguous. We need to be more concrete. There's more than enough energy and materials to go around. If there isn't, we can always make more. The landfills full of trace minerals and open pit mines full of diamonds - just SITTING there - should make anyone suspicious about the high price of these "rare" commodities. Utilities are the same way. Oil doomsdayers make price jacking seem justified. It isn't. In an ideal world, everyone would have enough oil, gas and nuclear rations to live an excellent and productive life. They might (and probably would) invest a good deal of their rations into energy R&D and expanding current renewable infrastructure.

Even when I can get through to the "every man for himself" crowd (let's not make this political with labels and such), there's always another argument that breaks my heart. "It's too hard". People are so quick to give up, using the term "idealist" as an insult. We need to stop thinking like that. Idealism is not stupidity.