>>This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities. Considering how strong people's preference for meat ar

>>This could easily be solved by removing animal ag subsidies and with taxing of negative externalities. Considering how strong people's preference for meat are, you could raise prices and inevitably demand will start growing again when incomes rise sufficiently. >>Sure, but that means a lot of resources (oil, for example) and further destruction of the environment (mining, built-up areas), and a large timescale. The resources needed to build those out will be more than made up for by the resources saved from switching to an abundant non-CO2/pollutant emitting energy system.