Further, our whole systemis dependent on carbon. Millions (billions?) would starve without it, along with other downsides.
Future impacts will be worse if we don't stop, but tell that to people suffering today.
The advantage of a carbon tax approach is that it uses market incentives to encourage investments in alternatives. Hopefully, we are able to discover viable alternatives via this method, otherwise we're done for either way.
A command and control shutdown simply seems impossible. Maybe carbon taxes are too, but I feel a tax and dividend approach could work, as everyone gets money from it. Or a proposal to tax carbon and massively cut income taxes.
The yellow jacket protests you cite:
1. Didn't have any return of money to taxpayers. It was just a tax hike.
2. Would be even worse if fuel were banned
