[ben_w]

I'd be fine with a carbon tax, if only we could get every nation to do it near-simultaneously (within a few years of each other at most) — I don't think it's sufficient for any one nation to say they'll do that for local production plus an equivalent import tariff to compensate for what other nations are doing (we also want to lower emissions of everyone else's internal markets, but also there's a lot of people who will fraudulently claim they're eco-friendly when they're not, and that's harder to catch when there is an international border in the way) — but "the perfect is the enemy of the good", and this may still be a step in the right direction even if my concerns are proportionate to the actual risks (which they may not be).

I think the rapidly decreasing costs of renewables and storage are likely to make the transition happen before the political will to get a carbon tax, but if you recon you can push the right buttons, I encourage you to try it :)