IMO, in the long term it will be more harmful at all levels, because the reaction to price increases will be a political reaction (despite that being relatively

IMO, in the long term it will be more harmful at all levels, because the reaction to price increases will be a political reaction (despite that being relatively irrelevant) and a longer lasting disdain for policies that were enacted or proposed too fast and too soon for a proper transition away to be feasible. The only solution I see is for fossil fuel prices to continue to rise regardless of political will or technology or any such thing, with accompanying mass disaster and die-off -- essentially a sacrifice to the poorly defined gods of environmentalism who demand an ironically conservative state of existence.