If a problem has no solution then it's not really a "problem", it's just a fact to be accepted. Regardless of heat and power generation, natural gas is a crucial feedstock for manufacturing many types of chemicals. There is no conceivable future where we don't need that stuff to maintain a modern industrial civilization.

> Regardless of heat and power generation, natural gas is a crucial feedstock for manufacturing many types of chemicals.

Maybe, but the vast majority of gas use in industry is for heat and power and electricity is a trivial substitute there.

And even the direct use as process input is far from unavoidable, because in a lot of cases this use could be reduced/eliminated or shift to synthetic inputs, which would happen organically if prices shifted long-term anyway.