The Australian Government circa 2010 introduced a carbon tax... it was one of the first governments in the world to do so. It causes prices to go up, miners to

The Australian Government circa 2010 introduced a carbon tax... it was one of the first governments in the world to do so. It causes prices to go up, miners to threaten to close mines as costs became too high, basically it was a shit show and the government went to election against a conservative party promising to remove the tax and make it impossible to bring it back, ever, if it won... of course, it won and has remained in power since then. Today, Australia is probably one of the worst offenders when it comes to carbon emissions per-capita, and its Government is hostile to carbon emission reductions except when it costs no jobs, no taxes and no worries to anyone , i.e. never. I think we can see this scenario playing up again in quite a few other countries, unfortunately... for this reason, I don't think taxes will solve the problem.