I don't know if my solution is elegant or short sighted. It's hard to know because there is so much politics involved that it's hard to get a good read on my op

I don't know if my solution is elegant or short sighted. It's hard to know because there is so much politics involved that it's hard to get a good read on my opinion. Tax all meat, especially beef, based on the amount of "pollution"(carbon,water usage in low water areas, etc.) each "unit" of that meat takes. At the same time, invest in nuclear. It works. There are now small nuclear stations being developed that are allegedly fallout proof. Move to electric cars and as much electric power as we possibly can, powered by the nuclear(and to whatever extent we can, wind, hydro, solar). We need to tax bad industries that are clearly causing us harm overall and use those taxes to fund startup costs for viable good industries like renewable energy. No reason it can't be competitive IIRC, it's just so behind in capital compared to fossil fuel.