Not even here on Democratic Underground.
The only possible fossil fuel free world economy that resembles in any way today's economy would be nuclear powered.
A world economy powered entirely by "renewable" energy sources such as wind and solar would look nothing like the economy many affluent people now enjoy.
If we were serious about climate change we'd be paying people to experiment with lifestyles having a very small environmental footprint, and we'd be encouraging the most successful of these lifestyles as measured by happiness, not by money.
Typically these lifestyles might be urban and largely vegetarian. Few people would own cars. The population density of some suburbs would be increased, creating walkable urban centers within them where people work and shop.
To seriously address global warming we have to crash land the world economy as it now exists, before it disintegrates around us and billions of us die.
Climate change is already killing people, and refugees are already migrating away from areas that have been severely affected by climate change. It's only going to get worse.
What we now call "economic productivity" isn't actually productivity at all, it is in fact a measure of the damage we are doing to what remains of the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.
I'm not sure we can fix the problem in our current political system. No politician is going to win on a platform of removing factory farm meat from people's diets, and cars from their garages. Instead the economy will crash in some crisis, even here in the U.S.A.. Those of us who are not immediately displaced by the crisis will have to have learn compassion for those of us who are.
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