[baggy_trough]

A magical unicorn is about as likely as convincing the world, including poor countries, to make fossil fuels more expensive on a global basis.

[Pxtl]

80 years ago vast swaths of the world sent a generation of their young people off to Europe and Asia to die for the sake of political alliances. Killing all those people was extremely expensive.

When did we become such losers?

[baggy_trough]

Trying to convince huge numbers of people to become much poorer is a task that would likely require a similar number of dead individuals.

[xethos]

> require a similar number of dead individuals.

That's fine - I'm sure we'll get them one way or another