Production doesn't happen without consumption.

Clean production doesn't happen without costs.

Consumption doesn't happen if costs are too high.

This is the trap we are now stuck in...nobody wants to pay premium prices for cleaner alternatives.

And why should they? A brief dopamine hit before you realize that you paid extra for what is likely, otherwise, a sub-quality product?

The only way is to actually bake the cost of emissions into the cost of the product, making dirtier products roughly equal (or more expensive) than their clean competition.

That means gas should be much more than $5/gal, btw. It's estimated it costs between $0.50 and $1.90 to extract a kilogram of carbon from the atmosphere. One gallon of gasoline results in a out 9kg of tailpipe emissions. Gas should be at least 3x as expensive as it is now, just to cover cleaning up after the emissions from burning it alone (not even considering extraction, transport, refinement, industrial accidents...), probably more to offset the cost of dyed diesel and energy conversion programs. A lot of colder states heat with that and it's already approaching $6/gal in the northeast.

You think people are upset about costs now....imagine if we actually did something.