When we look at cigarettes, I think high prices due to tax policy have been part of the way smoking has gone way down in the last 50 years. Taxing carbon is the type of policy that could impact emissions and that would go hand-in-hand with technology. The problem is that it would hit rural folks like me hardest.

I also think that technology when paired with community/national policy has the potential to impact emissions. For example if we went all in for bullet trains and local mass transit, we could impact the use of cars and airplanes. This is different from making a more fuel efficient car because it sidesteps the current system.

Of course, with Citizens United and gerrymandering and the Electoral College we have a two party system that seems beholden to corporate interests who are unwilling to change systems and policies. Maybe it needs to get worse? But I worry that if people are not convinced to make systemic change with all the evidence in front of us now, then they will never be convinced. It is Don't Look Up all over again.