"There needs to be a greater urgency in addressing the issue to hopefully start reversing the present and very real effects of climate change."--This is a technocratic managerialist fantasia.  We can no more "reverse" the effects of climate change than we can stop the rotation of the earth.

"Pittsburgh has survived the demise of domestic steel production and Colorado will do just fine with the quick end to the use of coal for power generation."--Pittsburgh took *decades* to recover from the demise of the steel industry and much of the upper Midwest remains a swath of virtual ghost towns that still haven't recovered from their own industries disappearing.  It's easy to glibly state "we need to do this fast" when you and your community don't have to suffer the consequences of globalist managerialism.