For the foreseeable future, there is enough water in the Caspian sea to desalinate. If they would just stop playing with nuclear centrifuges and build some pumps and pipelines instead.
I live in Central Europe. The European tree cover increased 30% over the last 30 years due to reduced farming needs. So if we need to cut a big tree down, we just cut it and nobody complains since so many new small trees are planted all the time. Just like in ye gut olde preregulation deys.
Yup - Europe too. It is called Balcony Solar. People put one or two panels on their balcony railing. In Central Europe home solar is producing so much excess power over the midday that some countries have huge multi-gigawatt dummy loads to burn it off.
The oil and gas industry uses multiple well enhancement techniques. Peak Oil is a news filler story like Noahs Ark Found! Peak Oil! Magnetic Field Reversal! Ocean Current Collapse! Ice Age! Killer Asteroid! Nuclear Armageddon! Heard them all.