What if we "kill off industries" that are endangering our existence and generate new industries that can fulfill the same roles. For instance I grew up near a hydro dam, but luckily not near a coal burning plant, or you might be paying taxes to help pay my medical bills for lung disease.
How do we kill off these industries? You'd have to convince 7.7 billion people on the planet to stop using gasoline and other cheap fossil fuel energy. We could completely shut down the Alberta oil sands and take axes to all our current pipelines but it wouldn't kill off these industries.
We don't need unworkable dreams, we need practical solutions that will fit into the current economic realities. People want to help global warming, they also want cheap food, energy, and transportation. When those 2 are able to intersect we will have ourselves a solution. Fortunately we have geniuses working on tech and that tech will keep getting cheaper as it always does.