Comment by JuniperMesos
12 hours ago
Yeah but there's a lot of individual members of society, and nearly all of them benefit from supply chains that emit CO2 and would have to stop doing so in order to not emit the CO2.
If gasoline in the US cost $20/gallon this would reduce the amount of CO2 emissions because suddenly driving a gasoline-powered car is much more expensive for everyone. This would make a lot of ordinary Americans very upset.
All everyone needs to know is gas prices will slowly increase to $20, and change starts happening immediately. Nobody actually needs to be stuck with a $20/gallon charge.
As you note, sudden discontinuous changes just create their own pushback, which works against the change.