Yes, I agree.
There are a couple of things. First of all, why would you not want to develop alternate clean energy sources when the entire world is a marketplace and a consumer of energy? The people with the widgets out first in front of everyone else are the people who are going to stand to benefit, because there's no reason not to have some clean, sustainable energy when it's available, rather than burning something that provides all sorts of other negative effects in terms of health, air quality, etc.
The second thing is that it seems to me that it's not a level playing field. The reason why is the way we cost energy. When we cost something, what is the environmental cost associated with the combustion of fossil fuels? Is there one built into the cost?
If you have a nuclear power plant and you build it, my understanding is that you have the decommissioning cost built in right up front in the commissioning of the plant. If you build a coal plant, all you have to do is find a coal field, build a burner on top of it, and burn it. Who is paying the cost of the emissions from that coal plant? I don't know. Probably nobody. Therein lies where I don't think the playing field is level.
I would defer to economists on this, because I think we really need to reconsider this. They know much better how these things are dealt with economically.