Aha! after watching for months, I found someone talking about responses to global warming other than somehow stopping industrial progress. Back in November 1997, Gregory Benford wrote about "mitigation" options to actively cool the earth.
Philosophically, we must come to grips with the fact that humanity changes the earth and has for a long time. It is well and good to try and have a gentle touch on the earth, but we need to remember that simple farming already causes dramatic effects. Unless we want to go back to hunting and gathering, we need to find a way to live in an industrial world. In a time where most of the world's population is depressingly poor, we should not rush to abandon our best technique to bring them wellbeing.