Saul Griffith is an Aussie engineer living and working in California. He’s written a clear-eyed book about a possible way through the climate emergency, keeping things to +2 degrees C, and it goes like this:

• electrify everything with solar and wind
• start now
• keep a little nuclear for evening things out, although we probably won’t use it
• a bit of R&D into blue-sky solutions like fusion, because the payoff will be big, but don’t rely on it
• remove regulatory impediments, fossil-fuel subsidies, buy the stranded assets for (average profit + a small margin), … non-technical tweaks to law, finance

Unlike most of this literature, he backs it up with numbers. It’s like talking to Paul Mathews; arguments based on data, with charts to make it comprehensible.

The short version is at https://www.otherlab.com/blog-posts/how-do-we-decarbonize. The longer version is in a book I found at the library, “Electrify”: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/electrify-the-book

It’s doable. First thing I’ve seen that makes me think so.