ABSTRACT
The climate protection movement has had little trouble portraying the dangers of climate change, but it has had far more difficulty providing a credible plan to transition to a climate-safe economy without mass unemployment and economic catastrophe. One thoughtful and well-known climate activist, asked what would happen if protestors managed to shut a coal plant down permanently, replied, “If the question is, ‘What do we do after we shut it down tomorrow,’ somebody else will have to figure that out.”1 Facile assurances that climate protection will produce more jobs than it destroys have not filled the need for a concrete pathway that protects people as well as the climate.
