Exactly, if the change is done gradually, there will not be a serious impact on our daily lives and quality of life (except maybe for the better). In the long term, wind, hydro, solar, and nuclear power should be cheaper than coal, since coal has to be mined at the great cost of extra energy. I put myself somewhere in the middle, I've talked to people who say 'oil is evil' and act like we should somehow magically stop using it tomorrow. This is a fallacy, we need to wean ourselves off of it before it runs out and work towards cleaner, cheaper, better energy sources. However, if we don't address our short term needs with energy sources we currently use, we do run the risk of greatly damaging world economies; this will make funds to develop alternatives very hard to find. A good, bustling economy is the perfect environment for innovation.
Oil, coal, etc are not evil by definition, they were a means to pull ourselves out of the proverbial dark ages and into the modern world by providing a new substance, energy. These sources were cheap, easy to obtain, and easy to turn into energy. Now that we have realized we can't use them forever due to pollution concerns and limited supply, it's time to move on to something better. We just need to begin to move beyond these old technologies gradually and stop the silly namecalling, bickering, fearmongering, etc that happens so often with this topic. Working together from a centrist type position is really the only way to solve the long term energy problem.
Those are my thoughts on the subject.
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