Thanks for front-paging this, Charles. It’s the easy-to-read, all-on-one-page print version of McKibben’s article I linked to, so please read the whole thing if you can - he talks about solutions toward the end, namely a simple, straightforward carbon tax to reflect the real cost of fossil fuel.

As for the oh-noes-that-kill-jobs disingenuous derps, let them take this number:

US coal jobs: 80,000
US solar jobs: 100,000 (and sure to grow, if only we could kill fossil fuel tax breaks and subsidies)

So there.