People are willing to pay a little more for energy. They are not willing to pay enough more for energy to matter.
They reconcile that reality with their desire to save the planet by pretending that the small amount they are willing to pay more for energy is enough to materially affect climate change. It is not. Which is why the types of proposals that could materially affect climate change (like a really large carbon tax) never get proposed even by very liberal governments (like that of California). Because even in California, they know that a carbon tax big enough to matter is one big enough to get them voted out of office.
Albaby
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You keep saying this but where is your backup that says the current efforts at reducing CO2 emissions is not enough to affect climate change?
California and some other states and countries are measurably reducing their CO2 emissions. These states and countries are not pretending anything. Their goals are to meet the UN climate change targets. They have passed carbon tax rules, renewable energy rules, electric vehicle rules, and many other rules to reduce CO2 emissions.
This is all work in progress which is reducing CO2 emissions. And as more and more requirements become mandatory more and more CO2 emissions are eliminated.
Jaak